梨火疫病菌噬菌体的初步研究

为找到梨火疫病菌适度专化性的噬菌体，用于该病的检测和鉴定，从英国病山楂枝条上分离到一株噬菌体，测定了其寄主范围、潜育期、繁殖量等，还观察了其形态。分离到的噬菌体为高度专化性噬菌体，不能单位用于梨火疫病菌的检测和鉴定，可与其他梨火疫病菌噬菌体株系配合使用。     

Characterization of Erwinia amylovora Strains from Croatia

Erwinia amylovora is the causative agent of fire blight, a destructive disease of rosaceous plants. The European population can be divided into several subtypes according to differences in restriction fragment length polymorphism of the XbaI genomic DNA digest analysed with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. This technique was also used to determine the genetic relatedness of six Croatian isolates to the E. amylovora types found in the countries surrounding Croatia. The isolates belong to the Pt2 pattern type that is characteristic of the East Mediterranean basin. All tested isolates gave essentially the same total cell protein pattern in SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The number of short-sequence DNA repeats in plasmid pEA29 of six isolates was determined by PCR assays and ranged from four to seven. The isolates examined showed high pathogenicity in immature pear fruits. Differences were also revealed in microbiological assays such as amylovoran synthesis, levan formation, siderophore production and colour on coliform medium.     

Identification of a nonpathogenic Erwinia amylovora guaB mutant

A nonpathogenic Erwinia amylovora transposon mutant that has an insertion in the gua B gene was isolated. The mutation results in a nutritional requirement for guanine or xanthine, and loss of ability to produce ooze on immature pear fruit and to cause symptoms in the apple seedling assay. The mutant expressed other known virulence determinants including extracellular polysaccharide and had an intact hrp/dsp cluster. In addition it was able to grow in host tissue, although the population size in planta was maintained at a considerably lower level than that seen with the parent strain. The inability of the Erwinia amylovora gua B mutant to cause disease indicates that levels of guanine in plant tissue are likely to be insufficient to maintain optimal growth via the purine salvage pathway. This, in turn, appears to compromise the ability of the mutant to develop a sufficiently large population size in planta to overcome host defence mechanisms and cause disease symptoms. This indicates that a functional de novo guanine synthetic pathway is important for Erwinia amylovora to grow on plant tissue and cause disease.     

Occurrence of Erwinia amylovora on pear in Albania

Pear trees were observed in the province of Durres (AL) with typical symptoms of fireblight on the shoots, fruit and branches. Bacteriological analysis of samples of diseased material confirmed the presence of Erwinia amylovora. The isolates were identified on the basis of phenotypical and pathogenic characteristics. The total protein electrophoretic profiles of the Albanian isolates were indistinguishable from those of the strain found in the Po valley (IT).     

梨火疫病菌的实时荧光PCR检测

 根据梨火疫病菌16S~23S间的ITS保守序列,设计并合成了一对特异性引物REA/FEA,应用荧光染料SYBR Green I,对10个梨火疫的菌株和其它相关参试菌株进行了检测。结果表明,10个梨火疫菌株都产生荧光信号而其它参试菌株都不产生荧光信号,成功建立了梨火疫病菌的实时荧光PCR检测方法。整个检测过程只需3h,完全闭管,降低了污染的机会,无需PCR后处理。检测的灵敏度是4个菌体细胞,比常规PCR电泳检测提高了10倍。用该特异性引物对梨枝条浸泡液进行实时荧光PCR检测,结果可特异性检测到目标菌的存在,并且检测的灵敏度是24个菌体细胞,比常规PCR电泳检测提高10倍。     

吩嗪类化合物对梨火疫病菌的抗菌活性研究

由解淀粉欧文氏菌Erwinia amylovora引起的梨火疫病是危害梨、苹果等蔷薇科果树的一种重要细菌病害,在世界范围内造成严重损失,是果树上重要的防控对象。药剂防治是控制梨火疫病传播蔓延的一种重要手段。吩嗪类化合物是绿针假单胞菌Pseudomonas chlororaphis和抗生素溶杆菌Lysobacter antibioticus等生防细菌产生的抗菌活性物质,在农药、医药等领域有广阔的应用前景。为明确吩嗪类化合物对梨火疫病菌的抗菌活性,本研究通过测定含不同浓度药剂的菌悬液OD₆₀₀的方法,评价了本课题组分离的5个吩嗪类化合物以及常见的抗细菌药剂对梨火疫病菌的室内抗菌活性。结果表明,堆囊粘菌素(myxin)和吩嗪-1-羧酸(PCA)活性较好,EC₅₀分别为7.20μg/mL和46.41μg/mL。中生菌素、噻霉酮、春雷霉素等药剂EC₅₀为7.21～50.74μg/mL。进一步对活性较好的药剂进行了复配筛选,结果显示,吩嗪-1-羧酸∶中生菌素=9∶1复配组合的EC₅₀为27.15μg/mL,增效...     

免疫吸附PCR技术提高梨火疫病菌检测灵敏度

本研究采用已经发表的引物和制备的梨火疫病菌抗血清,研制了免疫吸附-PCR技术,使其检测梨火疫病菌纯菌的灵敏度比标准PCR技术提高10倍;检测模拟样品中的梨火疫病菌灵敏度提高了1000倍;从相关混合菌液中能够更加灵敏和准确地检测出梨火疫病菌.该方法简单易行,准确灵敏,具有广阔的应用前景.     

Necrotrophic behaviour of Erwinia amylovora in apple and tobacco leaf tissue

An important issue related to the epidemiology of fire blight, a devastating disease of apples and pears, is how its causal agent, the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, survives and disseminates in the environment. Almost no information is available on the possibility of this pathogen overwintering as a necrotroph. In this study, bacterial survival in dead apple and tobacco (a non‐host) leaf tissues was addressed. In necrotized leaves collected 5, 6, 7 and 8 months following shoot inoculation of apple trees, viable E. amylovora cells were present in over 50% of samples from the midrib and in over 10% of samples from lateral veins, but were never found in parenchyma. Using a PCR‐based method, pathogen DNA was detected in more than 50% of samples that were found to be free of viable cells by conventional plating out. However, PCR analysis was insufficient to distinguish between the DNA of viable and dead bacteria. Sugars appropriate for bacterial growth were found in dead apple leaves. In spot‐inoculated attached apple and tobacco leaves, a remarkable increase in the bacterial population was observed in lesions that developed as a hypersensitive response (HR). As in other necrotrophic interactions, bacterial proliferation was associated with massive hydrogen peroxide production and progression toward plant cell death. The results indicate that E. amylovora has an ability to survive as a semi‐necrotroph or necrotroph, which allows for overwintering in dead apple leaves.     

梨火疫病的分布,传播及检测技术研究进展

本文介绍了梨火疫病的危害,传播及目前世界分布;讨论了各种植物材料和包装物传病的危害性,评价了包括传统的和分子生物学方法在内的梨火疫病菌的各种检测方法及该病对我国的潜在威胁,为对该病的检疫检测提供理论依据。     

Erwinia pyrifoliae, an Erwinia species different from Erwinia amylovora, causes a necrotic disease of Asian pear trees

Bacteria from necrotic branches of Asian pear trees ( Pyrus pyrifolia ) in Korea were consistently isolated as white colonies on nutrient agar and formed mucoid, slightly yellow colonies on a minimal medium with copper sulphate. Isolates with this colony morphology were studied in a series of microbiological, molecular and pathological tests. Most isolates allowed the verification of Koch's postulate on P. pyrifolia seedlings and on slices from immature pear ( Pyrus communis ) fruits and were also positive in hypersensitivity tests on tobacco leaves. They showed characteristics common to species in the genus Erwinia , but were different from Erwinia amylovora , the agent of fire blight. A relationship between the novel pathogen and E. amylovora was found in microbiological and serological tests. Both organisms had similar but not identical protein patterns in 2-D gel electrophoresis, and in growth morphology the new pathogen produced colonies on MM2 Cu medium that were mucoid and slightly yellow, compared with the clearly yellow colonies of E. amylovora . No similarity was found in the plasmid profiles, and consequently no PCR signal was obtained with primers from the E. amylovora plasmid pEA29. REP-PCR also produced bands differing for the two organisms.     

Characterization of the RcsC sensor kinase from Erwinia amylovora and other Enterobacteria

RcsC is a hybrid sensor kinase which contains a sensor domain, a histidine kinase domain, and a receiver domain. We have previously demonstrated that, although the Erwinia amylovora rcsC mutant produces more amylovoran than the wild-type (WT) strain in vitro, the mutant remains nonpathogenic on both immature pear fruit and apple plants. In this study, we have comparatively characterized the Erwinia RcsC and its homologs from various enterobacteria. Results demonstrate that expression of the Erwinia rcsC gene suppresses amylovoran production in various amylovoran overproducing WT and mutant strains, thus suggesting the presence of a net phosphatase activity of Erwinia RcsC. Findings have also demonstrated that rcsC homologs from other enterobacteria could not rescue amylovoran production of the Erwinia rcsC mutant in vitro. However, virulence of the Erwinia rcsC mutant is partially restored by rcsC homologs from Pantoea stewartii, Yersinia pestis, and Salmonella enterica but not from Escherichia coli on apple shoots. Domain-swapping experiments have indicated that replacement of the E. coli RcsC sensor domain by those of Erwinia and Yersinia spp. partially restores virulence of the Erwinia rcsC mutant, whereas chimeric constructs containing the sensor domain of E. coli RcsC could not rescue virulence of the Erwinia rcsC mutant on apple. Interestingly, only chimeric constructs containing the histidine kinase and receiver domains of Erwinia RcsC are fully capable of rescuing amylovoran production. These results suggest that the sensor domain of RcsC may be important in regulating bacterial virulence, whereas the activity of the histidine kinase and receiver domains of Erwinia RcsC may be essential for amylovoran production in vitro.     

梨园气溶胶中梨火疫病菌的定量检测

为系统研究梨园气溶胶中梨火疫病菌的含量, 本研究于2019年－2021年在新疆库尔勒市人和农场梨园, 利用病原菌孢子捕捉器在每年春季(4月下旬)、夏季(6月中旬)、秋季(9月中旬)收集梨园气溶胶, 检测梨火疫病菌。结果显示, 健康梨园气溶胶中未检测到梨火疫病菌, 不同发病程度的梨园气溶胶中均能检测到梨火疫病菌, 携菌量均值在102 cfu/(24cm2·h)以上, 其中, 气溶胶中梨火疫病菌含量最高值为2.81×104 cfu/(24cm2·h), 最低值为8.50×102 cfu/(24cm2·h); 重度、中度、轻度发病果园收集的气溶胶中含梨火疫病菌总菌落数均值分别为8.74×103、4.55×103、2.36×103 cfu/(24cm2·h)。此外, 在同一高度收集的气溶胶中, 梨火疫病菌菌落数随收集时间的延长而增加。不同季节气溶胶携菌量检测结果表明, 秋季发病梨园中气溶胶携菌量明显高于夏季和春季, 与梨园梨火疫病发病规律相符。致病性测定结果表明, 气溶胶中分离的梨火疫病菌具有致病性。     

进境苹果果实中梨火疫病菌的套式PCR检测

 针对进境商用苹果果实携带梨火疫病菌Erwinia amylovora数量有限的特点,选取源于病菌pEA29质粒的2对引物P29A/P29B和PEANT1/PEANT2配对组合成套式PCR,其检测灵敏度可达0.15 pg菌体DNA,检测灵敏度高于EPPO推荐的单管套式PCR方法和常规PCR方法。分别利用这3种PCR检测方法对美国、新西兰、日本和智利等国进境的166批苹果样品进行检测,3种检测方法的样品阳性率分别为53.6%、38.0%和8.4%,试验结果表明此套式PCR检测方法可用于进境商用苹果的梨火疫病菌快速检测。进境样品的检测结果证实了进境商用苹果果实中存在梨火疫病菌的可能性。     

免疫捕获PCR检测进境苹果果实中梨火疫病菌

利用梨火疫病菌抗体和PCR技术建立了梨火疫病菌免疫捕获PCR方法,检测苹果模拟样品的灵敏度达到了1.5×102cfu/reaction。与直接PCR进行比较,免疫捕获PCR方法检测苹果模拟样品的灵敏度提高了10倍以上,而且省去了DNA提取等步骤。利用该方法成功从进境苹果样品中检测到梨火疫病菌,产物测序结果表明,产物序列和梨火疫病菌的相应序列高度一致。试验结果表明,免疫捕获PCR法能除去样品中的大部分PCR反应抑制物质,可以有效检测进境苹果中梨火疫病菌,在口岸水果检疫中具有一定的应用潜力和推广价值。