Article
Exploitation of a new flagellatropic phage of Erwinia for positive selection of bacterial mutants attenuated in plant virulence: towards phage therapy.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Feb 2010
Evans T J, Trauner A, Komitopoulou E, Salmond G P C
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: To isolate and characterize novel bacteriophages for the phytopathogen, Erwinia carotovora ssp. atroseptica (Eca), and to isolate phage-resistant mutants attenuated in virulence. METHODS AND RESULTS: A novel flagellatropic phage was isolated on the potato-rotting bacterial species, Eca, and characterized using electron microscopy and restriction analysis. The phage, named PhiAT1, has an icosahedral head and...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacteriophages
- DNA, Viral
- Flagella
- Genome, Viral
- Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
- Mutagenesis
- Myoviridae
- Pectobacterium carotovorum
- Phenotype
- Plant Diseases
- Solanum tuberosum
- Virulence