Abstract
Symptoms of a bacterial disease were observed in nine plantations of hybrid poplar clones (Populus x interamericana ‘Beaupré’, and Populus x euramericana ‘I-214’ and ‘MC’) in five localities of Castilla y León and Aragón (north and northeastern Spain, respectively) in summer 2002, 2014 and 2015. Affected trees were from nine to twenty six years old and disease incidence was up to 30% in some poplar stands. The bark of symptomatic trees was vertically cracked and copious white frothy fluid and creamy slime was observed. Some severely affected trees even died after few years. Isolations from exudates on King’s B medium yielded colonies light cream coloured, round, slightly convex and not fluorescent under UV light. A selection of ten purified isolates was further characterized and compared to the reference strain DSM25466T of Lonsdalea quercina subsp. populi (Tóth et al. 2013). All bacterial isolates were Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, produced levan positive colonies and were esculin hydrolysis positive, but negative for oxidase, urease and tobacco hypersensitivity. Results in API 20E tests, incubated at 25ºC and 37ºC, showed that biochemical characteristics of the studied strains were consistent with those described for L. quercina subsp. populi. PCR amplification using specific primers for L. quercina LqfF/LqfR and LqgF/LqgR (Shang et al. 2015) resulted in the expected 382 and 286-bp amplicons, respectively. Partial 16S rDNA sequencing was used for identification of strains after amplification (Martinez-Murcia et al. 1992). Sequences were aligned and compared with those available in the GenBank database for species of the genera Lonsdalea and Brenneria and other phylogenetically related species. The program MEGA version 6.06 (Tamura et al. 2013) was used to construct a dendrogram using the maximum-likelihood method based on p-distance or the Tamura-Nei models. Results of 16S rDNA sequencing showed 99.8% to 100% sequence identity to the sequence of the strain DSM25466T of L quercina subsp. populi obtained in this work, or NY011 and NY041 from the database. All sequences obtained were submitted to GenBank under Accession Nos. KU531470 to KU531480. Pathogenicity tests were carried out on excised segments of poplar stems (P. x euramericana ‘I-214’) inoculated with bacterial suspensions (107 CFU/ml) (Li et al. 2014). Three stem segments were inoculated per bacterial isolate and after 4-5-days incubation at 28oC typical symptoms observed in the field were reproduced in 100% of the inoculated stems, whereas no symptoms were observed on negative controls. Similar bacteria were re-isolated from lesions of inoculated stems and resulting colonies were confirmed by biochemical tests and PCR. The recently described subspecies L. quercina susbsp. populi had been previously reported in Hungary (Tóth et al. 2013) and China (Li et al. 2014). To our knowledge, this is the first report of this bacterium causing bark canker disease of poplar in Spain and further surveys will help to asses its precise distribution. The disease could have a potential significant economic impact on susceptible poplar clones.
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Bacterial disease affected hybrid poplar in nine plantations in Spain.
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e0“Symptoms of a bacterial disease were observed in nine plantations of hybrid poplar clones (Populus x interamericana ‘Beaupré’, and Populus x euramericana ‘I-214’ and ‘MC’) in five localities of Castilla y León and Aragón (north and northeastern Spain, respectively) in summer 2002, 2014 and 2015”
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Disease incidence reached 30% in some poplar stands.
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e0“disease incidence was up to 30% in some poplar stands”
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Symptomatic trees had cracked bark and white frothy fluid and creamy slime.
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- bark of symptomatic trees was vertically cracked and copious white frothy fluid and creamy slime was observede0
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e0“The bark of symptomatic trees was vertically cracked and copious white frothy fluid and creamy slime was observed”
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Some severely affected trees died after a few years.
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e0“Some severely affected trees even died after few years”
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Isolates showed biochemical traits consistent with L. quercina subsp. populi.
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- L. quercina subsp. populiLonsdalea populie0pathogen
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- biochemical characteristics of the studied strainse0
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e0“biochemical characteristics of the studied strains were consistent with those described for L. quercina subsp. populi”
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Specific PCR assays yielded expected 382 and 286-bp products.
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- L. quercina
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- 382 and 286-bpe0
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e0“PCR amplification using specific primers for L. quercina LqfF/LqfR and LqgF/LqgR (Shang et al. 2015) resulted in the expected 382 and 286-bp amplicons, respectively”
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16S sequences showed 99.8% to 100% identity to reference pathogen sequences.
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- L quercina subsp. populiLonsdalea populie0pathogen
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- sequence identitye0
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- 99.8% to 100%e0
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e0“Results of 16S rDNA sequencing showed 99.8% to 100% sequence identity to the sequence of the strain DSM25466T of L quercina subsp. populi”
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Inoculated poplar stem segments developed typical symptoms in 100% of cases, unlike negative controls.
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- 100%e0
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- negative controlse0
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e0“typical symptoms observed in the field were reproduced in 100% of the inoculated stems, whereas no symptoms were observed on negative controls”
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Bacteria resembling the inoculum were reisolated from stem lesions.
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- Similar bacteria were re-isolated from lesions of inoculated stemse0
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e0“Similar bacteria were re-isolated from lesions of inoculated stems and resulting colonies were confirmed by biochemical tests and PCR”
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Authors report L. quercina subsp. populi causing poplar bark canker in Spain for the first time.
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e0“this is the first report of this bacterium causing bark canker disease of poplar in Spain”
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