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Genetic fingerprinting of Iranian Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris strains inducing black rot disease of crucifers

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Northern Iran has one of the largest and most diverse populations of cultivated crucifers in Iran. Symptoms of black rot disease were observed in 40 % of fields. To assess the genetic diversity of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) strains, associated with black rot disease, 40 strains were isolated from infected samples of crucifers such as cabbage, radish, cauliflower, turnip and kohlrabi, and were collected from different geographic regions of northern Iran including West and East Azarbayjan and Ardabil provinces. Bacterial strains were characterized by their morphological, biochemical and physiological features and pathogenicity tests. Four races were found in northern Iran (1, 4, 5 and 6) and the majority of the tested strains belonged to either race 4 (45 %) or race 6 (20 %). To examine the distribution of dispersed repetitive DNA, Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus (ERIC), BOX, Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic (REP) and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) sequences in the genome of Xcc using conserved primers. The different markers produced characteristic banding patterns and the similarity matrices from binary banding data was derived with the similarity for qualitative data program (SIMQUAL). On the basis of the fingerprint patterns generated by the combination data set of both rep-PCR and RAPD, the Xcc strains were differentiated into seven clusters (A–G) at 76 % similarity level. The geographical origin of the Iranian strains does not seem to be correlated with the RAPD and rep-PCR clusters. The clusters seem to be more related to the race of the strains. This is the first study on genetic diversity of Xcc strains inducing black rot disease of crucifers in Iran.

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Rouhrazi, K., Khodakaramian, G. Genetic fingerprinting of Iranian Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris strains inducing black rot disease of crucifers. Eur J Plant Pathol 139, 175–184 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-013-0375-4

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