Detection of Pantoea ananatis, causal agent of leaf spot disease of maize, in Mexico
R. Pérez-y-Terrón A , M. C. Villegas B , A. Cuellar C , J. Muñoz-Rojas C , M. Castañeda-Lucio D , I. Hernández-Lucas E , R. Bustillos-Cristales C , L. Bautista-Sosa C , J. A. Munive C , R. Caicedo-Rivas A and L. E. Fuentes-Ramírez C FA Escuela de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico.
B Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional.
C Lab. Microbiología de Suelos, Mexico.
D Lab. Bioquímica y Genética Microbiana, Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 1622, Puebla, CP 72000, México.
E Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 510-3, Cuernavaca, Morelos, CP 62250, México.
F Corresponding author. Email: lefuente@siu.buap.mx
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 4(1) 96-99 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN09041
Submitted: 27 July 2009 Accepted: 30 August 2009 Published: 21 September 2009
Abstract
Bacterial isolates from maize plants showing a leaf spot disease were identified through molecular and phenotypic traits, showing that the isolates belong to Pantoea ananatis. Maize plants inoculated with those isolates showed a pathogenic reaction. This is the first report of a disease of Mexican maize caused by P. ananatis.
Additional keywords: Enterobacteriaceae, Zea mays, phytopathogen.
Acknowledgments
This work was partially funded by projects CONACYT 000000000089747, and VIEP-BUAP, FURL-NAT08-G and BUCM-NAT09-I and by IPN. R. Pérez was granted by PROMEP. We thank Dr Alfredo G. Torres (University of Texas Medical Branch) and Dr Michael Dunn (Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM) for editing the manuscript.
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