• Journal of the Korean Society of Tobacco Science
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.54-59
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• 1996

Erwinia carotovora subsp. Carotovora (Ecc), a pathogen of tobacco hollow stalk disease, was isolated for testing susceptibility to streptomycin from diseased plants in burley tobacco growing area. Of 157 isolates tested, 17 isolates (108%) were resistant to the antibiotic at the antibiotic from field soils, which streptomycin had been used continuously for three years for control of the disease was three times higher than those of non-used. There was no difference in virulence and generation time between streptomycin-sensitive and resistant strains.

• Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.157-162
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• 1994

Erwinia rhapontici causes soft-rot disease in a number of plants such as onion, garlic and hyacinth. There has been no report that E. rhapontici produces pectate lyase. Pel gene was cloned from genomic DNA of the parasitic soft-rot E. rhapontici polymerase chain reaction by using synthetic oligonulceotide primers designed from the pel 1 to E. carotovora. The recombinant plasmid pJE101 containing pectate lyase gene, when introduced into E. coli DH5$\alpha$, produced pectate lyase an macerated hyacinth tissue.

• Plant Disease and Agriculture
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.61-63
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• 1999

Bacterial soft rot was observed on radish grown in Hongcheon, Kanwon-Do, Korea. The soft rot symptoms began as small water-soaked lesions. The water-soaked lesions enlarged rapidly in roots and produced a foul odor. When roots were affected in the field, the shoots also became infected and watery, causing infected plants to wilt, disorganize, and die. The causal organism was isolated from the lesions, and the identified as Erwinia chrysanthemi based on the morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics. E. chrysanthemi is first described bacterium which causes bacterial soft rot on radish in Korea.

• Plant Disease and Agriculture
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.64-66
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• 1999

Black leg occurred in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) grown in Pyungchang, Kangwon-Do, Korea. The symptoms began as small water-soaked lesions on stem, and the affected stems discolored black to brown. It became yellow under dry condition. When lower parts of potato were affected in the field, wilting of leaves and desiccation of the stem were developed. The causal organism was isolated from lesions and identified as Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica based on the morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics. E. carotovora subsp. atroseptica is the first described bacterium which causes black leg in potato in Korea.

• Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.129-131
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• 1996

Pecatate lyase(Pel)는 펙틴과 펙틴산을 분해하며, 기주식물의 감염에 관여한다. Erwinia rhapontici에 있어서 기주와 병원균이 병원성과의 상호관계를 구명하기 위하여 pectate lyase(Pel) 활성에 미치는 식물체 추출물과 세포벽의 효과를 검토하였다. 본 균은 glycerol이 포함된 minimal salts(MSG) 배지와 식물체 추출물이 첨가된 MSP 배지에서는 Pel 활성이 검출되지 않았다. 그러나 배추, 상추 잎, 감자 괴경, 셀러리 잎자루, 양파 인경, 당근 뿌리의 세포벽이 첨가된 MSP 배지에서는 Pel의 활성이 검출되었다. Pel을 유도하는 식물 인자는 불용성이고, 열처리에 불안전하였다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.380-387
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• 1997

Phytopathogenic Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora (Ecc) LY34 causes plant tissue maceration by secretion of pectinolytic enzymes such as pectate Iyase (PL) existed as multiple isoenzyme form. Genomic DNA from Ecc LY34 was digested with Sau3Al and ligated into the BamHI site of pBluescript ll $SK^+$. Among them, a clone hydrolyzing polypectate was selected and its DNA was digested with BamHI. Through the subsequent subcloning the resulting 3.1 kb fragment, corresponding to a peICI, was subcloned into pLYPA 100. The structural organization of a peICI gene encoding a 374 amino acid residues consists of an open reading frame (ORF) of 1,122 bp commencing with a ATG start codon and followed by a TAA stop codon. PeICI contained a typical prokaryotic signal peptide of 22-amino acid. Since the deduced amino acid sequences of PeICl protein was very similar to those of PelIII of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora, and to those of Pel3 of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica, and to those of PeIC of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora, it belong to the same family PLbc group. The 374-amino acld PeICI had a calculated Mr of 40,507 and pI of 7.60.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.29 no.B
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• pp.121-125
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• 2009

New cellulase genes, named as CelV2 and CelN1, respectively, were isolated from Erwinia carotovora ATCC15713 and expressed in E. coli. The CelV2 and CelN1 gene were PCR amplified with degenerated primers and PCR products were sequenced and expressed in E. coli. Two new cellulase genes showed 97% homologies with previously reported Erwinia cellulase genes. The recombinant cellulase were purified with Ni-NTA column chromatography and its enzymatic properties were characterized. The optimum temperature of two enzymes were about $50^{\circ}C$ degree and optimum pH were around pH7.0. The newly isolated celluase genes could be used for enhancing substrate range of alcohol-producing bacteria such as Zymomonas mobilis.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.98-102
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• 1990

A strain of Erwinia spp. was selected from the soil for the production of bacteriocin to the root rot plant pathogen. Bacteriocin producing gene was not located on plasmid but on chromosome. Genomic library of Erwinia spp. were made by using pLAFR 3 as a vector system for cloning of the gene. It was been cloned and expressed in E. coli DH 5 . Bacteriocin producing colony was composed of pLAFR 3 vector and 3.0 kb EcoRI fragment of Erwinia spp. ehromosomal DNA. The inserted fragment (3.0 kb) was possessed a EcoRI and BarnHI restriction sites.

• Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.164-170
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• 1998

This study was carried out to develop DNA probe for specific detection of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora. Universal rice primer (URP, 20 mer) developed from repetitive sequence of rice was applied for producing PCR DNA fingerprints of Erwinis spp. In E. carotovora subsp. carotovora strains, primer URP2F amplyfied polymorphic bands which are distinguisable from other Erwinia spp. A PCR band of 0.6 kb selected from PCr polymorphic bands of E. carotovora subsp. carotovora strains was cloned and evaluated as a diagnostic DNA probe. Among 28 bacterial strains including 22 Erwinia spp, the probe (pECC2F) only hybridized to total DNAs from e. carotovora subsp. carotovora strains and E. carotovora subsp. wasabiae, but sizes of hybridized bands were different between these subspecies, 10.0 kb and 3.5 kb respectively. In dot blot assays using probe pECC2F, as few as 103 colony forming units (CFU) of E. carotovora subsp. carotovora could be detected in a suspension containing about 1$\times$103 CFU of soil bacteria.

• Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.101-104
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• 1990

The bacteria isolated from mulberry trees which had shoot soft rot symptoms occurred after intermediate cutting during autumn rearing season were indentified. External morphology of the bacteria showed rod shape with peritrichous flagella, and were facultative anaerobes in oxygen requirement test. The baacteria easily putrefied the slices of potato and carrot when they were placed on to the center of sliced surfaces, and the bacteria, also, iniciated rapid development of soft rot symptoms on mulberry leaves in pathogenesity test. The results of morphological, physiological and pathological tests on the bacteria suggested that the isolate could be a strain of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora.