Sep 11, 2024

Public workspaceSpray inoculation of peach trees or leaves with the plant pathogen Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni. V.1

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dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.eq2lywbxrvx9/v1
  • 1Clemson University
Daniela Negrete-Moreno
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DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.eq2lywbxrvx9/v1
Protocol Citation: Daniela Negrete-Moreno, Annabel Miller, Elizabeth Cieniewicz 2024. Spray inoculation of peach trees or leaves with the plant pathogen Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni.. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.eq2lywbxrvx9/v1
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,  which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: Working
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Created: September 11, 2024
Last Modified: September 11, 2024
Protocol Integer ID: 107371
Keywords: Spray-inoculations, Xap, detached leaf assays, and potted tree assays
Abstract
Description: 
Potted tree experiments and detached leaf assays are used for many purposes, including: 
  1.     observing the effects of a single pathogen on a host cultivar, 
  2.     observing the effects of multiple pathogen interactions on a host cultivar
  3.     comparing the defense responses and tolerance of different cultivars to pathogen attack.

Abstract:
South Carolina is the leading peach-producing state in the southeastern United States, where multiple pests and pathogens regularly threaten orchards. Here, we describe a methodology for controlled inoculations of potted peach trees or detached peach leaves with the bacterium Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni (Xap). This protocol is used primarily to study interactions between Xap and viruses in peach. To further understand the effects of a bacterial-viral co-infection, detached leaf assays serve as a controlled representation of what happens in the field. Hence, we report developing a Xap-specific spray inoculation method that inoculates a medium directly from bacterial colonies. 
 
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