Abstract
Plant necrotrophic Dickeya spp. are among the top ten most devastating bacterial plant pathogens able to infect a number of different plant species worldwide including economically important crops. Little is known of the lytic bacteriophages infecting Dickeya spp. A broad host lytic bacteriophage ϕD3 belonging to the family Myoviridae and order Caudovirales has been isolated in our previous study. This report provides detailed information of its annotated genome, structural proteome and phylogenetic relationships with known lytic bacteriophages infecting species of the Enterobacteriaceae family.
Highlights
Pectinolytic Dickeya spp. can cause disease on a number of arable and ornamental crops worldwide including potato, tomato, carrot, onion, pineapple, maize, rice, hyacinth, chrysanthemum and calla lily resulting into severe economic losses [1]
Lytic bacteriophages have been proposed as potential biological control agents against various pathogenic bacterial species including plant pathogens [4]
Their potential to control plant bacterial diseases has been evaluated among others against Erwinia amylovora, Xanthomonas pruni, Ralstonia solanacearum and were experimentally tested against Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. in different crop systems [4]
Summary
Pectinolytic Dickeya spp. can cause disease on a number of arable and ornamental crops worldwide including potato, tomato, carrot, onion, pineapple, maize, rice, hyacinth, chrysanthemum and calla lily resulting into severe economic losses [1]. * Correspondence: robert.czajkowski@biotech.ug.edu.pl 1Department of Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland Full list of author information is available at the end of the article these bacteriophages in detail [5, 6] and to provide information on their genomes and structural proteomes [7].
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