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Citation for Study 11869

About Citation title: "Phylogenetic relationships among global populations of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae".
About Study name: "Phylogenetic relationships among global populations of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae".
About This study is part of submission 11869 (Status: Published).

Citation

Chapman J.R., Taylor R.K., Weir B.S., Romberg M.K., Vanneste J.L., & Alexander B.J. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships among global populations of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae. Phytopathology, 102(11): 1034?1044.

Authors

  • Chapman J.R.
  • Taylor R.K.
  • Weir B.S. (submitter) Phone +64 9 574 4115
  • Romberg M.K.
  • Vanneste J.L.
  • Alexander B.J.

Abstract

Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae, the causal agent of canker in kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) vines, was first detected in Japan in 1984, followed by detections in Korea and Italy in the early 1990s. Isolates causing more severe disease symptoms have recently been detected in several countries with a wide global distribution, including Italy, New Zealand, and China. In order to characterize P. syringae pv. actinidiae populations globally, a representative set of 40 isolates from New Zealand, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Chile were selected for extensive genetic analysis. Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of housekeeping, type III effector and phytotoxin genes was used to elucidate the phylogenetic relationships between P. syringae pv. actinidiae isolates worldwide. Four additional isolates, including one from China, for which shotgun sequence of the whole genome was available, were included in phylogenetic analyses. It is shown that at least four P. syringae pv. actinidiae MLSA groups are present globally, and that marker sets with differing evolutionary trajectories (conserved housekeeping and rapidly evolving effector genes) readily differentiate all four groups. The MLSA group designated here as Psa3 is the strain causing secondary symptoms such as formation of cankers, production of exudates, and cane and shoot dieback on some kiwifruit orchards in Italy and New Zealand. It is shown that isolates from Chile also belong to this MLSA group. MLSA group Psa4, detected in isolates collected in New Zealand and Australia, has not been previously described. P. syringae pv. actinidiae has an extensive global distribution yet the isolates causing widespread losses to the kiwifruit industry can all be traced to a single MLSA group, Psa3.

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