Abstract
Bacterial Blight is an important disease of cassava, causing losses that have resulted in historical famines in certain growing zones. The disease is caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis, a gram-negative rod that belongs to the gammaproteobacteria. In this review, we describe the pathosystem and the recent studies that have been undertaken to elucidate both susceptibility and resistance mechanisms in cassava, with the hope of generating resistant plants using biotechnology. We first describe studies of the pathogen, including pathogen population changes through time as well as genomic tools that have recently been generated to determine pathogenicity factors. Secondly, we discuss mechanisms of disease resistance that have been elucidated in recent years and how these mechanisms could be used for the generation of improved plants resistant to CBB.
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Abbreviations
- CBB:
-
Cassava bacterial blight
- Xam :
-
Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis
- RFLP:
-
Restriction fragment length polymorphism
- AFLP:
-
Amplified fragment length polymorphisms
- RAPD:
-
Random amplified polymorphic DNA
- TTSS:
-
Type III secretion system
- TAL:
-
Transcriptional activator-like
- QTL:
-
Quantitative trait loci
- MAMP:
-
Microbe-associated molecular pattern
- MTI:
-
MAMP-triggered immunity
- ETI:
-
Effector-triggered immunity
- NBS:
-
Nucleotide binding site
- TIR:
-
Toll/interleukin receptor
- CC:
-
Coiled coil
- LRR:
-
Leucine-rich repeat
- HR:
-
Hypersensitive response
- GST:
-
Glutathione S-transferase
- IRP:
-
Immunity-related protein
- IRG:
-
Immunity-related gene
- PR:
-
Pathogenesis-related proteins
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The work of CEL and AJB is funded by the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, ICGEB, The Colombian Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation and the International Foundation for Science.
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López, C.E., Bernal, A.J. Cassava Bacterial Blight: Using Genomics for the Elucidation and Management of an Old Problem. Tropical Plant Biol. 5, 117–126 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12042-011-9092-3
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