*Corresponding Author E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +86-022-84861931 Fax: +86-022-84861931 ‘Biofertilizers’ have been defined as alternative substances, to chemical fertilizers, which can stimulate plant growth and increase yield. Plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) represent the main component of biofertilizers. We chose seven bacteria with higher nitrogenase activity, from twenty-nine ...

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, which causes rice bacterial blight, is one of the most destructive pathogenic bacteria. Biological control against plant pathogens has recently received increasing interest. 1-Deoxy-N-acetylglucosamine (1-DGlcNAc) was extracted from the supernatant of Virgibacillus dokdonensis MCCC 1A00493 fermentation through antibacterial bioassay-guided isolation. Its structure...

abstract bacterial blight of rice, causes by xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae , is one of the most devastating disease of rice after blast disease. during the spring and summer of 2005-2006 different paddy fields in guilan province (roodsar, langrud, lahijan, rasht, anzali, fooman, soomeesara and roodbar) were surveyed and samples were collected from rices showing blight and yellowing in leaves. t...

SUMMARY Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola cause bacterial blight and bacterial leaf streak of rice (Oryza sativa), which constrain production of this staple crop in much of Asia and parts of Africa. Tremendous progress has been made in characterizing the diseases and breeding for resistance. X. oryzae pv. oryzae causes bacterial blight by invading the vascular t...

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae causes bacterial leaf blight, a serious disease of rice. Spontaneous mutants which are deficient for virulence and extracellular polysaccharide (Eps) production accumulate in large numbers in stationary-phase cultures of this bacterium, a phenomenon which we have called stationary-phase variation. A clone (pSD1) carrying the Eps biosynthetic gene (gum) cluster of X...

The letter of Yang et al. (1) is an interesting account of the continuing issues associated with the misidentification of Brucella species by the current commercial identification systems. As mentioned in the letter, we experienced similar issues with the commercial bacterial identification assays that rely on phenotypic laboratory tests (2). These systems remain unreliable for identification o...

The mutualism pattern of the dark septate endophyte (DSE) Harpophora oryzae in rice roots and its biocontrol potential in rice blast disease caused by Magnaporthe oryzae were investigated. Fluorescent protein-expressing H. oryzae was used to monitor the colonization pattern. Hyphae invaded from the epidermis to the inner cortex, but not into the root stele. Fungal colonization increased with ro...

Innate immune responses are induced in plants and animals through perception of Damage Associated Molecular Patterns. These immune responses are suppressed by pathogens during infection. A number of studies have focussed on identifying functions of plant pathogenic bacteria that are involved in suppression of Pathogen Associated Molecular Pattern induced immune responses. In comparison, there i...

Blast caused by fungal Magnaporthe oryzae is a devastating disease of rice (Oryza sativa) worldwide, and this fungus also infects barley (Hordeum vulgare). At least 11 rice WRKY transcription factors have been reported to regulate rice response to M. oryzae either positively or negatively. However, the relationships of these WRKYs in the rice defense signaling pathway against M. oryzae are unkn...

Postoperative endophthalmitis often progresses to significant visual impairment. This paper describes an outbreak of Ochrobactrum anthropi endophthalmitis following cataract surgery, and propose a new sterilization protocol to minimize the risk of further cases. Medical records of patients with O. anthropi endophthalmitis or with suggestive clinical findings during the outbreak were reviewed. S...