Unlocking the Potential of 46 New Bacteriophages for Biocontrol of Dickeya Solani.

ABSTRACT: Modern agriculture is expected to face an increasing global demand for food while also needing to comply with higher sustainability standards. Therefore, control of crop pathogens requires new, green alternatives to current methods. Potatoes are susceptible to several bacterial diseases, with infections by soft rot Enterobacteriaceae (SRE) being a significant contributor to the major annual losses. As there are currently no efficient ways of combating SRE, we sought to develop an approach that could easily be incorporated into the potato production pipeline. To this end, 46 phages infecting the emerging potato pathogen Dickeya solani were isolated and thoroughly characterized. The 46 isolated phages were grouped into three different groups based on DNA similarity, representing two d

SUBMITTER: Carstens AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6267328 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature