Plant pathogenic bacterium can rapidly evolve tolerance to an antimicrobial plant allelochemical.

ABSTRACT: Crop losses to plant pathogens are a growing threat to global food security and more effective control strategies are urgently required. Biofumigation, an agricultural technique where Brassica plant tissues are mulched into soils to release antimicrobial plant allelochemicals called isothiocyanates (ITCs), has been proposed as an environmentally friendly alternative to agrochemicals. Whilst biofumigation has been shown to suppress a range of plant pathogens, its effects on plant pathogenic bacteria remain largely unexplored. Here, we used a laboratory model system to compare the efficacy of different types of ITCs against Ralstonia solanacearum plant bacterial pathogen. Additionally, we evaluated the potential for ITC-tolerance evolution under high, intermediate, and low tran

SUBMITTER: Alderley CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9108312 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature