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ArticleNature communications2020

Plant hairy roots enable high throughput identification of antimicrobials against Candidatus Liberibacter spp.

Sonia Irigoyen, Manikandan Ramasamy, Shankar Pant, Prakash Niraula, Renesh Bedre, Meena Gurung, Denise Rossi, Corinne Laughlin, Zachary Gorman, Diann Achor and 7 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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41 citing papers in PubMed, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Sonia IrigoyenTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0647-4808
Manikandan RamasamyTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Shankar PantTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Prakash NiraulaTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Renesh BedreTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Meena GurungTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Denise RossiTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Corinne LaughlinTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Zachary GormanDepartment of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8180-6003
Diann AchorCitrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, USA.
Amit LevyCitrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, USA.
Michael V KolomietsDepartment of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Mamoudou SétamouTexas A&M University-Kingsville, Citrus Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Ismael E Badillo-VargasTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
Carlos A AvilaTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1969-4706
Michael S IreySouthern Gardens Citrus, Clewiston, FL, USA.
Kranthi K MandadiTexas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, USA. kkmandadi@tamu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2986-4016
Texas A&M University · USFlorida Department of Citrus · USOklahoma State University · USTexas A&M University – Kingsville · USTexas A&M University System · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A major bottleneck in identifying therapies to control citrus greening and other devastating plant diseases caused by fastidious pathogens is our inability to culture the pathogens in defined media or axenic cultures. As such, conventional approaches for antimicrobial evaluation (genetic or chemical) rely on time-consuming, low-throughput and inherently variable whole-plant assays. Here, we report that plant hairy roots support the growth of fastidious pathogens like Candidatus Liberibacter spp., the presumptive causal agents of citrus greening, potato zebra chip and tomato vein greening diseases. Importantly, we leverage the microbial hairy roots for rapid, reproducible efficacy screening of multiple therapies. We identify six antimicrobial peptides, two plant immune regulators and eight chemicals which inhibit Candidatus Liberibacter spp. in plant tissues. The antimicrobials, either singly or in combination, can be used as near- and long-term therapies to control citrus greening, potato zebra chip and tomato vein greening diseases.

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High-Throughput Screening AssaysAnti-Infective AgentsBase SequenceCitrusGene EditingPlant DiseasesPlant RootsRhizobiaceaeSolanum lycopersicumSolanum tuberosumTransgenesAnti-Infective Agents

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PMID33199718
PMCPMC7669877
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