Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of lettuce bacterial pathogen xanthomonas hortorum pv. Vitians populations collected in Quebec, Canada

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creativework.keywords - en
bacterial leaf spot
pathogenecity
genome wide association study
creativework.keywords - fr
bactériose folaire
étude d'association pangénomqiue
pathogénicité
dc.contributor.author
Hébert, P.-O.
Laforest, M.
Xu, D.
Ciotola, M.
Cadieux, M.
Beaulieu, C.
Toussaint, V.
dc.date.accessioned
2023-04-20T15:58:53Z
dc.date.available
2023-04-20T15:58:53Z
dc.date.issued
2021-11-24
dc.description.abstract - en
Bacterial leaf spot of lettuce, caused by Xanthomonas hortorum pv. vitians, is an economically important disease worldwide. For instance, it caused around 4 million CAD in losses in only a few months during the winter of 1992 in Florida. Because only one pesticide is registered to control this disease in Canada, the development of lettuce cultivars tolerant to bacterial leaf spot remains the most promising approach to reduce the incidence and severity of the disease in lettuce fields. The lack of information about the genetic diversity of the pathogen, however, impairs breeding programs, especially when disease resistance is tested on newly developed lettuce germplasm lines. To evaluate the diversity of X. hortorum pv. vitians, a multilocus sequence analysis was performed on 694 isolates collected in Eastern Canada through the summers of 2014 to 2017 and two isolates in 1996 and 2007. All isolates tested were clustered into five phylogroups. Six pathotypes were identified following pathogenicity tests conducted in greenhouses, but when phylogroups were compared with pathotypes, no correlation could be drawn. However, in vitro production of xanthan and xanthomonadins was investigated, and isolates with higher production of xanthomonadins were generally causing less severe symptoms on the tolerant cultivar Little Gem. Whole-genome sequencing was undertaken for 95 isolates belonging to the pathotypes identified, and de novo assembly made with reads unmapped to the reference strain’s genome sequence resulted in 694 contigs ranging from 128 to 120,795 bp. Variant calling was performed prior to genome-wide association studies computed with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), copy-number variants and gaps. Polymorphisms with significant p-values were only found on the cultivar Little Gem. Our results allowed molecular identification of isolates likely to cause bacterial leaf spot of lettuce, using two SNPs identified through genome-wide association study.
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Hébert, P.-O., Laforest, M., Xu, D., Ciotola, M., Cadieux, M., Beaulieu, C., & Toussaint, V. (2021). Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of lettuce bacterial pathogen xanthomonas hortorum pv. Vitians populations collected in Quebec, Canada. Agronomy, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11122386
dc.identifier.doi
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11122386
dc.identifier.issn
2073-4395
dc.identifier.uri
https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/222
dc.language.iso
en
dc.publisher
MDPI
dc.rights.openaccesslevel - en
Green
dc.rights.openaccesslevel - fr
Vert
dc.subject - en
Agriculture
dc.subject - fr
Agriculture
dc.subject.en - en
Agriculture
dc.subject.fr - fr
Agriculture
dc.title - en
Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of lettuce bacterial pathogen xanthomonas hortorum pv. Vitians populations collected in Quebec, Canada
dc.title.fosrctranslation - fr
Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of lettuce bacterial pathogen xanthomonas hortorum pv. Vitians populations collected in Quebec, Canada
dc.type - en
Article
dc.type - fr
Article
local.article.journalissue
12
local.article.journaltitle
Agronomy
local.article.journalvolume
11
local.peerreview - en
Yes
local.peerreview - fr
Oui
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