Influence of <i>Vitis</i> xylem fluid and xylem fluid plus cecropin on growth of <i>Xylella fastidiosa</i>

Authors

  • P. C. Andersen
  • M. L. Ishida
  • E. A. Momol
  • B. V. Brodbeck
  • B. Leite
  • M. T. Momol

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5073/vitis.2004.43.19-25

Keywords:

antimicrobial peptides, cecropins, lytic peptides, Pierce’s disease, Vitis rotundifolia, Vitis vinifera

Abstract

Colony growth of Xylella fastidiosa (UCLA PD and STL PD strains) was quantified after incubation for 48 h in xylem fluid of Vitis rotundifolia Michx. cv. Noble and Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay. Xylem fluid was collected from grapevines in the field (dormant and growing season) and from container-grown plants in a screen house (growing season). Colony forming units·ml-1 (cfu·ml-1) were counted 15 d after plating on periwinkle wilt (PW+) medium. Colony growth was promoted or inhibited compared to PW+ medium, and was dependent on X. fastidiosa strain, plant species and source of xylem fluid. The efficacy of cecropin A and B was tested against this bacterium. Colony growth of X. fastidiosa was greatly inhibited after a 1-h-exposure to cecropin A or B. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of cecropin A or B for 100 % inhibition of X. fastidiosa was < 1 μM. The activity of cecropin B in xylem fluid of V. rotundifolia cv. Noble was progressively reduced over time from 0.2 to 24 h. When 2 and 10 μM concentrations of cecropin A and cecropin B were mixed with xylem fluid for 24 h, a substantial amount of bacterial growth occurred after subsequent plating; shorter time intervals did not degrade the cecropins and did not prevent colony growth. Cecropin B (1 μM) added to xylem fluid of V. rotundifolia cv. Noble and V. vinifera cv. Chardonnay for 24, 48, 72 and 96 h did not prevent subsequent colony growth. Colony number tended to be higher for V. rotundifolia cv. Noble than V. vinifera cv. Chardonnay. Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (Tricine-SDS-PAGE) of cecropin B in xylem fluid showed that cecropin B degraded completely (V. vinifera cv. Chardonnay) or almost completely (V. rotundifolia cv. Noble) after 96 h.


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2015-04-20

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