Abstract
Crown gall of grapevine is an economically important disease in all areas where grapes are grown, but it is particularly severe in regions with cold climates. The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to compare available Agrobacterium primer sets and identify a more reliable PCR analysis that can detect tumorigenic and non-pathogenic A. vitis and A. tumefaciens strains involved in the crown gall disease of grapevines in Iran and (2) to detect the genetic diversity of these strains by insertion sequence 50 (IS50) PCR as the genetic marker. Based on the results of morphological, physiological, biochemical, and pathogenicity tests and amplification of the virD2 gene fragment and subsequent comparison of IS50-PCR fingerprints of the strains, we identified 27 of all 40 strains tested as tumorigenic A . vitis , three strains as non-tumorigenic A. vitis , and ten strains as tumorigenic A . tumefaciens . The similarity of all pairwise combinations was determined using Jaccard’s coefficient, and cluster analysis was performed using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic average (UPGMA) clustering. On the basis of the fingerprint patterns generated by IS50-PCR,, the isolated strains were differentiated into four clusters (A–D) at the 60% similarity level. These four clusters could be further divided into several subgroups at the 80% similarity level. These results demonstrate that there is a wide variation in the sensitivity patterns of different Agrobacterium strains to different antibiotics.
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Claim · model-written summary
Twenty-seven of 40 strains were tumorigenic A. vitis.
- Interactor
- A . vitisGillisella vitise0pathogen
- Outcome
- tumorigenic A . vitise0
- Value
- 27 of all 40 strainse0
VitisOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“we identified 27 of all 40 strains tested as tumorigenic A . vitis”
t0“grapevine”
Claim · model-written summary
Three strains were non-tumorigenic A. vitis.
- Interactor
- A. vitisGillisella vitise0pathogen
- Outcome
- non-tumorigenic A. vitise0
- Value
- three strainse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“three strains as non-tumorigenic A. vitis”
t0“grapevine”
Claim · model-written summary
Ten strains were tumorigenic A. tumefaciens.
- Interactor
- A . tumefaciens
Agrobacterium tumefaciense0pathogen - Outcome
- tumorigenic A . tumefaciense0
- Value
- ten strainse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“ten strains as tumorigenic A . tumefaciens”
t0“grapevine”
Claim · model-written summary
IS50-PCR distinguished four clusters at 60% similarity.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the isolated strains were differentiated into four clusters (A–D) at the 60% similarity level”
t0“grapevine”
Claim · model-written summary
The four clusters were divided into subgroups at 80% similarity.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“These four clusters could be further divided into several subgroups at the 80% similarity level”
t0“grapevine”
Claim · model-written summary
Agrobacterium strains varied widely in antibiotic sensitivity.
- Interactor
- Agrobacterium strainse0pathogen
- Outcome
- sensitivity patterns of different Agrobacterium strainse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“there is a wide variation in the sensitivity patterns of different Agrobacterium strains to different antibiotics”
t0“grapevine”