Opportunistic Bacteria of Grapevine Crown Galls Are Equipped with the Genomic Repertoire for Opine Utilization
Hanna Faist, Markus J Ankenbrand, Wiebke Sickel, Ute Hentschel, Alexander Keller, Rosalia Deeken · 2023
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Description
Hanna Faist and co-authors study bacteria living in grapevine crown galls in a 2023 paper. Crown gall disease, caused by a pathogen that rewrites plant cells, can kill young vines. The tumors leak rare nutrients called opines, which the pathogen can eat. Other bacteria share the gall, and what feeds them was unknown.
The team isolated eight strains from galls, read their genomes, and compared them with 34 published relatives. Only the true pathogen carried the tumor-making and opine-building genes. But opine-eating genes appeared in every strain, pathogen or not. The gall thus feeds a whole tenant community that lives off the pathogen's work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hanna Faist, Markus J Ankenbrand, Wiebke Sickel, Ute Hentschel, Alexander Keller, Rosalia Deeken |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |