Mechanisms of action of plant growth promoting bacteria

OS Olanrewaju, BR Glick, OO Babalola - World Journal of Microbiology …, 2017 - Springer
The idea of eliminating the use of fertilizers which are sometimes environmentally unsafe is
slowly becoming a reality because of the emergence of microorganisms that can serve the …

Pseudomonas syringae: what it takes to be a pathogen

XF **n, B Kvitko, SY He - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Pseudomonas syringae is one of the most common plant pathogens that infect the
phyllosphere. P. syringae can live on the plant surface as an epiphyte. To cause disease, it …

Current and prospective methods for plant disease detection

Y Fang, RP Ramasamy - Biosensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
Food losses due to crop infections from pathogens such as bacteria, viruses and fungi are
persistent issues in agriculture for centuries across the globe. In order to minimize the …

Bacteriophages and bacterial plant diseases

C Buttimer, O McAuliffe, RP Ross, C Hill… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Losses in crop yields due to disease need to be reduced in order to meet increasing global
food demands associated with growth in the human population. There is a well-recognized …

Isolation of phages for phage therapy: a comparison of spot tests and efficiency of plating analyses for determination of host range and efficacy

M Khan Mirzaei, AS Nilsson - PLoS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Phage therapy, treating bacterial infections with bacteriophages, could be a future
alternative to antibiotic treatment of bacterial infections. There are, however, several …

Framing the future with bacteriophages in agriculture

A Svircev, D Roach, A Castle - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
The ability of agriculture to continually provide food to a growing world population is of
crucial importance. Bacterial diseases of plants and animals have continually reduced …

A jumbo phage that forms a nucleus-like structure evades CRISPR–Cas DNA targeting but is vulnerable to type III RNA-based immunity

LM Malone, SL Warring, SA Jackson, C Warnecke… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide bacteria with adaptive immunity against bacteriophages.
However, DNA modification,, the production of anti-CRISPR proteins, and potentially other …

Efficacy of bacteriophage treatment against carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Galleria mellonella larvae and a mouse model of acute pneumonia

J Jeon, JH Park, D Yong - BMC microbiology, 2019 - Springer
Background Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen that causes serious
nosocomial infection in intensive care units. In particular, carbapenem-resistant A …

Efficiency of Phage φ6 for Biocontrol of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae: An in Vitro Preliminary Study

LAM Pinheiro, C Pereira, C Frazão, VM Balcão… - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas syringae is a plant-associated bacterial species that has been divided into
more than 60 pathovars, with the Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae being the main …

Kiwifruit bacterial canker: An integrative view focused on biocontrol strategies

C Pereira, P Costa, L Pinheiro, VM Balcão, A Almeida - Planta, 2021 - Springer
Main conclusion Phage-based biocontrol strategies can be an effective alternative to control
Psa-induced bacterial canker of kiwifruit. Abstract The global production of kiwifruit has been …