Molecular Characterization and Genome Mechanical Features of Two Newly Isolated Polyvalent Bacteriophages Infecting Pseudomonas syringae pv. garcae.

ABSTRACT: Coffee plants have been targeted by a devastating bacterial disease, a condition known as bacterial blight, caused by the phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. garcae (Psg). Conventional treatments of coffee plantations affected by the disease involve frequent spraying with copper- and kasugamycin-derived compounds, but they are both highly toxic to the environment and stimulate the appearance of bacterial resistance. Herein, we report the molecular characterization and mechanical features of the genome of two newly isolated (putative polyvalent) lytic phages for Psg. The isolated phages belong to class Caudoviricetes and present a myovirus-like morphotype belonging to the genuses Tequatrovirus (PsgM02F) and Phapecoctavirus (PsgM04F) of the subfamilies Strab

SUBMITTER: Silva EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10815195 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature