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Ersoy Omeroglu E, Keriman Arserim-Uçar D, Yegin Z, Çağlayan N, Nur Zafer Yurt M, Busra Tasbasi B, Esma Acar E, Ucak S, Cengiz Ozalp V, Sudagidan M. Determination of Bacterial Diversity of Propolis Microbiota. Chem Biodivers 2023; 20:e202201182. [PMID: 36740570 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202201182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Propolis is a natural resinous mixture produced by the excretions of honeybees. PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA gene region was achieved using DNA of pre-enriched propolis samples collected from Apis mellifera production hives (n=37) in Eastern Türkiye (Bingöl and its regions). Next-generation sequencing and metabarcoding techniques were used to identify bacterial communities in propolis samples. Firmicutes dominated the phylum structure, with Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Tenericutes, and Spirochaetes following. The top three bacterial families were Bacillaceae, Enterobacteriaceae, and Enterococcaceae. Bacillus (dominantly B. badius and B. thermolactis at the species level) was recognized at the genus level, followed by Enterococcus and Clostridium sensu stricto. Our study comprehensively identified the bacterial diversity of propolis samples. Further investigations targeting to enlighten the microbiota of propolis and its potential application fields are required to gain better insight into ecological, nutritional, and medicinal perspectives.
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- Esra Ersoy Omeroglu
- Biology Department, Basic and Industrial Microbiology Section, Faculty of Science, Ege University, Izmir, 35040, Türkiye
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- Medical Laboratory Techniques Program, Vocational School of Health Services, Sinop University, Sinop, 57000, Türkiye
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- Department of Crop and Animal Production, Vocational School of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock, Beekeeping Program, Bingöl University, Bingöl, 12000, Türkiye
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- KIT-ARGEM R&D Center, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Meram, Konya, 42080, Türkiye
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- KIT-ARGEM R&D Center, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Meram, Konya, 42080, Türkiye
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- KIT-ARGEM R&D Center, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Meram, Konya, 42080, Türkiye
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- Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Aydın University, Istanbul, 34295, Türkiye
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- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Atilim University, Ankara, 06830, Türkiye
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- KIT-ARGEM R&D Center, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Meram, Konya, 42080, Türkiye
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Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Civera AV, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Migheli Q, Vloutoglou I, Maiorano A, Streissl F, Reignault PL. Pest categorisation of Pantoea ananatis. EFSA J 2023; 21:e07849. [PMID: 36895574 PMCID: PMC9989851 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023] Open
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The EFSA Plant Health Panel performed a pest categorisation of Pantoea ananatis, a Gram-negative bacterium belonging to the Erwiniaceae family. P. ananatis is a well-defined taxonomic unit; nonetheless, its pathogenic nature is not well defined and non-pathogenic populations are known to occupy several, very different environmental niches as saprophytes, or as plant growth promoting bacteria or biocontrol agents. It is also described as a clinical pathogen causing bacteraemia and sepsis or as a member of the gut microbiota of several insects. P. ananatis is the causal agent of different diseases affecting numerous crops: in particular, centre rot of onion, bacterial leaf blight and grain discoloration of rice, leaf spot disease of maize and eucalyptus blight/dieback. A few insect species have been described as vectors of P. ananatis, among them, Frankliniella fusca and Diabrotica virgifera virgifera. This bacterium is present in several countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Oceania from tropical and subtropical regions to temperate areas worldwide. P. ananatis has been reported from the EU territory, both as pathogen on rice and maize and as an environmental, non-pathogenic bacterium in rice marshes and poplar rhizosoil. It is not included in EU Commission Implementing Regulation 2019/2072. The pathogen can be detected on its host plants using direct isolation, or PCR-based methods. The main pathway for the entry of the pathogen into the EU territory is host plants for planting, including seeds. In the EU, there is a large availability of host plants, with onion, maize, rice and strawberry being the most important ones. Therefore, disease outbreaks are possible almost at any latitude, except in the most northern regions. P. ananatis is not expected to have frequent or consistent impact on crop production and is not expected to have any environmental impact. Phytosanitary measures are available to mitigate the further introduction and spread of the pathogen into the EU on some hosts. The pest does not satisfy the criteria, which are within the remit for EFSA to evaluate whether the pest meets the definition of a Union quarantine pest. P. ananatis is probably widely distributed in different ecosystems in the EU. It may impact some specific hosts such as onions while on other hosts such as rice it has been reported as a seed microbiota without causing any impact and can even be beneficial to plant growth. Hence, the pathogenic nature of P. ananatis is not fully established.
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Shin GY, Smith A, Coutinho TA, Dutta B, Kvitko BH. Validation of Species-Specific PCR Assays for the Detection of Pantoea ananatis, P. agglomerans, P. allii, and P. stewartii. PLANT DISEASE 2022; 106:2563-2570. [PMID: 35171633 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-08-21-1810-sc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Species of Pantoea represent a group of plant pathogenic bacteria that infect a variety of agro-economically important plant species. Among these, a complex of P. ananatis, P. allii, P. agglomerans, and P. stewartii subsp. indologenes cause center rot in onion, resulting in significant economic losses. As species of Pantoea are phenotypically closely related, identification of Pantoea species relies on the sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of housekeeping genes. To aid in rapid identification of Pantoea species, efforts have been made in developing species-specific primers to be used in PCR assays. In the current study, two P. ananatis, one P. allii, one P. agglomerans, and three P. stewartii published primers as well as newly developed P. agglomerans PagR primers were evaluated for their specificity against 79 Pantoea strains, belonging to 15 different species. To ensure that selected primers were evaluated against accurately identified species, sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of housekeeping gene infB were conducted. Thereafter, PCR assays using selected species-specific primers were performed. The results showed that previously described P. ananatis-specific PANA_1008; P. allii-specific allii-leuS; P. stewartii-specific PANST_rpoB, 3614galE, and DC283galE primers; and one newly designed P. agglomerans-specific PagR primer pair were highly specific for their target Pantoea species. They accurately identified these strains into their species and, in some cases, their subspecies level. The findings of the current study will facilitate rapid and reliable identification of P. ananatis, P. agglomerans, P. allii, and P. stewartii.
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- Gi Yoon Shin
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA 31793, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A
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Wielkopolan B, Frąckowiak P, Wieczorek P, Obrępalska-Stęplowska A. The Impact of Oulema melanopus—Associated Bacteria on the Wheat Defense Response to the Feeding of Their Insect Hosts. Cells 2022; 11:cells11152342. [PMID: 35954184 PMCID: PMC9367625 DOI: 10.3390/cells11152342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 07/26/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Wheat production is threatened by the destructive effects of numerous pests, including Oulema melanopus (cereal leaf beetle, CLB). Both adults and larvae of CLB damage grain crops, but the target of insecticide treatments are the larvae. Insect-associated bacteria are important for many of the insects’ life processes and may also modulate plant defense responses to feeding of their insect host. The aim of our study was to elucidate the early wheat plants’ reaction to this herbivore feeding and to disclose the CLB-associated bacteria modulation of the wheat-insect interactions. Transcriptome analyses were performed for the leaves wounded mechanically and by feeding of the CLB larvae as well as for the distal leaves to study both, the plant’s local and systemic response. Comparative transcriptome analysis indicated that 24 h after the plant treatment, a much larger number of up-regulated DEGs in damaged leaves was noted, especially those on which larvae were fed. It may suggest that at the analysed time point, the local response was stronger than the systemic one. In the leaves on which larvae with natural bacterial flora were fed (local response), the number of up- and down-regulated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) was 7136 and 7411, respectively, in comparison to the dataset obtained for the leaves wounded by larvae with a reduced number of bacteria. In the distal leaves, 3015 up- and 2372 down-regulated DEGs were noted. CLB-associated bacteria were found to affect many aspects of the physiology of wheat plants, especially in wounded leaves, including the expression of genes related to primary metabolism, phytohormone signaling and photosynthesis. We also observed that CLB-associated bacteria mitigated numerous anti-herbivore processes and pathways associated with the synthesis of metabolites and proteins, potentially harmful to the insects. The bacteria also reversed the expression of some genes involved, inter alia, in the phosphorylation of proteins, oxidative stress, cell wall organization, and biogenesis. Understanding the role of CLB-associated bacteria in the plant’s defense response will be important to the fields of pest control and herbivore and its host ecology and evolution.
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- Beata Wielkopolan
- Department of Monitoring and Signaling of Agrophages, Institute of Plant Protection—A National Research Institute, 60-318 Poznań, Poland;
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Protection—A National Research Institute, 60-318 Poznań, Poland; (P.F.); (P.W.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Protection—A National Research Institute, 60-318 Poznań, Poland; (P.F.); (P.W.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Protection—A National Research Institute, 60-318 Poznań, Poland; (P.F.); (P.W.)
- Correspondence:
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Yu L, Yang C, Ji Z, Zeng Y, Liang Y, Hou Y. Complete Genomic Data of Pantoea ananatis Strain TZ39 Associated with New Bacterial Blight of Rice in China. PLANT DISEASE 2022; 106:751-753. [PMID: 34597149 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-08-21-1845-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Pantoea ananatis is a phytopathogen infecting many economically important crops, including rice worldwide. Here, we report the complete genome of P. ananatis strain TZ39 identified as causative agent of a new bacterial blight of rice that emerged in China in 2020. The assembled genome consists of one circular chromosome of 4,483,976 bp and two plasmids of 135,135 and 276,579 bp. This complete genome of the first Chinese pathogenic P. ananatis strain will provide new insights into the traits of pathogenicity on genomic level from China and worldwide.
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- L Yu
- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
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Wielkopolan B, Krawczyk K, Szabelska-Beręsewicz A, Obrępalska-Stęplowska A. The structure of the cereal leaf beetle (Oulema melanopus) microbiome depends on the insect's developmental stage, host plant, and origin. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20496. [PMID: 34650106 PMCID: PMC8516949 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99411-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Cereal leaf beetle (CLB, Oulema melanopus, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) is a serious agricultural pest that causes considerable damages to agricultural production. The aim of this study was to characterize the bacterial communities associated with larvae and imagoes of CLB collected from various cereal host species and locations. The bacterial profile was characterized by 16S rRNA gene sequencing at the V3-V4 hypervariable region. Using taxonomy-based analysis, the bacterial community of CLB containing 16 phyla, 26 classes, 49 orders, 78 families, 94 genera, and 63 species of bacteria was identified. The abundance of Wolbachia, Rickettsia, and Lactococcus genus was significantly higher in CLB imagoes than in larvae. Statistical analysis confirmed that the bacterial community of the larvae is more diverse in comparison to imagoes and that insects collected from spring barley and wheat are characterized by a much higher biodiversity level of bacterial genera and species than insects collected from other cereals. Obtained results indicated that the developmental stage, the host plant, and the insect's sampling location affected the CLB's microbiome. Additionally, the CLB core microbiome was determined. It consists of 2 genera (Wolbachia and Rickettsia) shared by at least 90% tested CLB insects, regardless of the variables analysed.
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- Beata Wielkopolan
- Department of Monitoring and Signaling of Agrophages, Institute of Plant Protection-National Research Institute, 20 Węgorka St, 60-318, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Protection-National Research Institute, 20 Węgorka St, 60-318, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 28 Wojska Polskiego St, 60-624, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Protection-National Research Institute, 20 Węgorka St, 60-318, Poznan, Poland.
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Wielkopolan B, Jakubowska M, Obrępalska-Stęplowska A. Beetles as Plant Pathogen Vectors. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:748093. [PMID: 34721475 PMCID: PMC8549695 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.748093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 09/15/2021] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Herbivorous insects, likewise, other organisms, are exposed to diverse communities of microbes from the surrounding environment. Insects and microorganisms associated with them share a range of relationships, including symbiotic and pathogenic. Insects damage plants by feeding on them and delivering plant pathogens to wounded places, from where pathogens spread over the plant. Thus insects can be considered as both pests and reservoirs or vectors of plant pathogens. Although beetles are not mentioned in the first place as plant pathogen vectors, their transmission of pathogens also takes place and affects the ecosystem. Here we present an overview of beetles as vectors of plant pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, and Oomycota, which are responsible for developing plant diseases that can have a significant impact on crop yield and quality.
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- Beata Wielkopolan
- Department of Monitoring and Signaling of Agrophages, Institute of Plant Protection – National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Monitoring and Signaling of Agrophages, Institute of Plant Protection – National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Protection – National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland
- *Correspondence: Aleksandra Obrępalska-Stęplowska,
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