Complete Genome Sequence of the Plant Pathogen
            <i>Erwinia amylovora</i>
            Strain ATCC 49946

Sebaihia, Mohammed; Bocsanczy, Ana Maria; Biehl, Bryan S.; Quail, Michael A.; Perna, Nicole T.; Glasner, Jeremy D.; DeClerck, Genevieve; Cartinhour, Sam; Schneider, David J.; Bentley, Stephen D.; Parkhill, Julian; Beer, Steven V.

doi:10.1128/jb.00022-10

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“…An obvious difference between the currently sequenced E. amylovora genomes is the presence of (cryptic) plasmids (Smits et al 2010b;Sebaihia et al 2010;Powney et al 2011). Plasmids appear to be a major factor influencing the pan-genome of E. amylovora.…”

Section: Erwinia Amylovora Genomicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, the both genomes share over 99.99% sequence identity over the complete length, indicating only minimal evolution since the geographical dispersal. Plasmid pEA72, identified in the genome of E. amylovora Ea273 (Sebaihia et al 2010), is absent in E. amylovora CFBP 1430.…”

Section: Erwinia Amylovora Genomicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The recent sequencing of eight Erwinia genomes (i.e., 3 E. amylovora, 2 Erwinia pyrifoliae, Erwinia sp., Erwinia billingiae and Erwinia tasmaniensis) (Sebaihia et al 2010;Smits et al 2010a, b;Kube et al 2008Kube et al , 2010Park et al 2011) and three genomes of the closely related genus Pantoea (i.e., P. vagans, P. agglomerans and Pantoea ananatis) (Smits et al 2010c;De Maayer et al 2010) provides a solid genomics foundation to infer the species evolution within these genera.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Genomics and current genetic understanding of Erwinia amylovora and the fire blight antagonist Pantoea vagans

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The bacterial plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora causes fire blight, a major disease threat to pome fruit production worldwide with further impact on a wide-range of Rosaceae species. Important factors contributing to the development of the disease were discovered in the last decades. Comparative genomics of the genera Erwinia and Pantoea is coming into focus with the recent availability of complete genome sequences. Insights from comparative genomics now position us to answer fundamental questions regarding the evolution of E. amylovora as a successful pathogen and the critical elements for biocontrol activity of Pantoea spp. This trove of new data promises to reveal novel determinants and to understand interactive pathways for virulence, host range and ecological fitness. The ultimate aim is now to apply genomics and identify the pathogen Achilles heels and antagonist mechanisms of action as targets for designing innovative control strategies for fire blight.

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Section: Erwinia Amylovora Genomicsmentioning

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Genomics and current genetic understanding of Erwinia amylovora and the fire blight antagonist Pantoea vagans

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“…A total of 3,869 coding sequences (CDS) and putative functions of the encoding genes were automatically assigned to the genome using GenDB (8) with manual optimization (11,12). Plasmid pEA29 shares 99% sequence identity (100% coverage) with previously described pEA29 plasmids in genotypically diverse strains of E. amylovora (6,10,12). Plasmids pEAR5.2 (6 CDS) and pEAR4.3 (4 CDS) are unique to strain ATCC BAA-2158 and share 88% and 89% sequence identity (57% and 53% coverage) with pEP5 of E. pyrifoliae DSM 12163 T (11).…”

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Genome Sequence of an Erwinia amylovora Strain with Pathogenicity Restricted to Rubus Plants

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Here, we present the genome of a strain of Erwinia amylovora , the fire blight pathogen, with pathogenicity restricted to Rubus spp. Comparative genomics of ATCC BAA-2158 with E. amylovora strains from non- Rubus hosts identified significant genetic differences but support the inclusion of this strain within the species E. amylovora.

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“…The bigger one showed high similarity to plasmids occurring in the human intestinal bacteria. Analysis of genome sequence of the strain Ea273 (well-known and widely used in research) revealed the existence of another new plasmid called AMYP2 (size 71,487 bp) (Sebaihia et al 2010). Recently, a new plasmid of about 60 kbp has also been found in the E. amylovora strain isolated from Sorbus in Poland.…”

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Phenotypic and genetic diversity of Erwinia amylovora: the causal agent of fire blight

Puławska

Sobiczewski

2011

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Erwinia amylovora is a polyphagous bacterium causing fire blight on apple, pear and over 130 other plant species belonging mainly to the Rosaceae family. Although E. amylovora is regarded as a very homogenous species, the particular strains can differ in pathogenic ability as far as their host range is concerned (e.g. those originating from Rubus or Maloidae plants) as well as by the extent of the disease they cause. It was found that strains originating from North America are generally more genetically heterogeneous than those from Europe. Diversity of E. amylovora is also related to streptomycin resistance as a result of its application to control of fire blight. The level of genetic heterogeneity of E. amylovora is so low (comparative genome analysis revealed a similarity of over 99% for the two genomes tested) that standard DNA-based techniques fail in detection of intra-species variability. Amplified fragment length polymorphism was found to be most useful for differentiation of strains of fire blight causal agent as well as techniques ensuing release of pangenome sequences of two E. amylovora strains: multi-locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis and clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats.

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Complete Genome Sequence of the Plant Pathogen Erwinia amylovora Strain ATCC 49946

Cited by 107 publications

References 5 publications

Genomics and current genetic understanding of Erwinia amylovora and the fire blight antagonist Pantoea vagans

Genomics and current genetic understanding of Erwinia amylovora and the fire blight antagonist Pantoea vagans

Genome Sequence of an Erwinia amylovora Strain with Pathogenicity Restricted to Rubus Plants

Phenotypic and genetic diversity of Erwinia amylovora: the causal agent of fire blight

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