Plant-Bacteria Interactions

Mergaert, Peter, and Eric Giraud. 2024. “Pathogenic Nematodes Exploit Achilles’ Heel of Plant Symbioses.” Trends in Parasitology, August, S1471-4922(24)00220-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2024.08.005.

Lachat, Joy, Gaëlle Lextrait, Romain Jouan, Amira Boukherissa, Aya Yokota, Seonghan Jang, Kota Ishigami, et al. 2024. “Hundreds of Antimicrobial Peptides Create a Selective Barrier for Insect Gut Symbionts.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (25): e2401802121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401802121.

Bouznif, Besma, Amira Boukherissa, Yan Jaszczyszyn, Mohamed Mars, Tatiana Timchenko, Jacqui A. Shykoff, and Benoît Alunni. 2024. “Complete and Circularized Genome Sequences of Five Nitrogen-Fixing Bradyrhizobium Sp. Strains Isolated from Root Nodules of Peanut, Arachis Hypogaea, Cultivated in Tunisia.” Microbiology Resource Announcements, May, e0107823. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01078-23.

Jang, Seonghan, Kota Ishigami, Peter Mergaert, and Yoshitomo Kikuchi. 2024. “Ingested Soil Bacteria Breach Gut Epithelia and Prime Systemic Immunity in an Insect.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (11): e2315540121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2315540121.

Jouan, Romain, Gaëlle Lextrait, Joy Lachat, Aya Yokota, Raynald Cossard, Delphine Naquin, Tatiana Timchenko, Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Tsubasa Ohbayashi, and Peter Mergaert. 2024. “Transposon Sequencing Reveals the Essential Gene Set and Genes Enabling Gut Symbiosis in the Insect Symbiont Caballeronia Insecticola.” ISME Communications 4 (1): ycad001. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycad001.

Moréra, Solange, Armelle Vigouroux, Magali Aumont-Nicaise, Mohammed Ahmar, Thibault Meyer, Abbas El Sahili, Grégory Deicsics, et al. 2023. “A Highly Conserved Ligand-Binding Site for AccA Transporters of Antibiotic and Quorum-Sensing Regulator in Agrobacterium Leads to a Different Specificity.” The Biochemical Journal, December, BCJ20230273. https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20230273.

Trotereau, Jérôme, Romain Jouan, Delphine Naquin, Maxime Branger, Catherine Schouler, Philippe Velge, Peter Mergaert, and Isabelle Virlogeux-Payant. 2023. “Construction and Characterization of a Saturated Tn-Seq Library of Salmonella Typhimurium ATCC 14028.” Microbiology Resource Announcements, October, e0036523. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00365-23.

Camuel, Alicia, Albin Teulet, Mélanie Carcagno, Fazal Haq, Valérie Pacquit, Djamel Gully, Marjorie Pervent, et al. 2023. “Widespread Bradyrhizobium Distribution of Diverse Type III Effectors That Trigger Legume Nodulation in the Absence of Nod Factor.” The ISME Journal, June. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01458-1.

Brual, Typhaine, Géraldine Effantin, Julie Baltenneck, Laetitia Attaiech, Cloé Grosbois, Monique Royer, Jérémy Cigna, Denis Faure, Nicole Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat, and Erwan Gueguen. 2023. “A Natural Single Nucleotide Mutation in the Small Regulatory RNA ArcZ of Dickeya Solani Switches off the Antimicrobial Activities against Yeast and Bacteria.” PLoS Genetics 19 (4): e1010725. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010725.

Travin, Dmitrii Y., Romain Jouan, Armelle Vigouroux, Satomi Inaba-Inoue, Joy Lachat, Fazal Haq, Tatiana Timchenko, et al. 2023. “Dual-Uptake Mode of the Antibiotic Phazolicin Prevents Resistance Acquisition by Gram-Negative Bacteria.” MBio, February, e0021723. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00217-23.

Cigna, Jérémy, Kévin Robic, Pauline Dewaegeneire, Valérie Hélias, Amélie Beury, and Denis Faure. 2023. “Efficacy of Soft-Rot Disease Biocontrol Agents in the Inhibition of Production Field Pathogen Isolates.” Microorganisms 11 (2): 372. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11020372.

Robic, Kévin, Euphrasie Munier, Géraldine Effantin, Joy Lachat, Delphine Naquin, Erwan Gueguen, and Denis Faure. 2023. “Dissimilar Gene Repertoires of Dickeya Solani Involved in the Colonization of Lesions and Roots of Solanum Tuberosum.” Frontiers in Plant Science 14:1154110. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1154110.

Torres, Marta, Almudena Gonzalez-Mula, Delphine Naquin, and Denis Faure. 2022. “Construction of a Transposon Mutant Library in the Pathogen Agrobacterium Tumefaciens C58 and Identification of Genes Involved in Gall Niche Exploitation and Colonization.” In Microbial Environmental Genomics (MEG), edited by Francis Martin and Stephane Uroz, 209–26. Methods in Molecular Biology. New York, NY: Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2871-3_11.

Blin, Pauline, Kévin Robic, Slimane Khayi, Jérémy Cigna, Euphrasie Munier, Pauline Dewaegeneire, Angélique Laurent, et al. 2022. “Pattern and Causes of the Establishment of the Invasive Bacterial Potato Pathogen Dickeya Solani and of the Maintenance of the Resident Pathogen D. Dianthicola.” Molecular Ecology 30 (2): 608–24. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15751.

Khayi, Slimane, Kok-Gan Chan, and Denis Faure. 2022. “Patterns of Genomic Variations in the Plant Pathogen Dickeya Solani.” Microorganisms 10 (11): 2254. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10112254.

Travin, Dmitrii Y., Dmitry Sutormin, Peter Mergaert, and Konstantin Severinov. 2022. “Complete Genome Sequences of Two Rhizobium Strains Producing Azol(in)e-Modified Antibiotics.” Microbiology Resource Announcements 0 (0): e00722-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00722-22.

Bouvard, J., C. Douarche, P. Mergaert, H. Auradou, and F. Moisy. 2022. “Direct Measurement of the Aerotactic Response in a Bacterial Suspension.” Physical Review E 106 (3): 034404. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.034404.

Ohbayashi, Tsubasa, Raynald Cossard, Gaëlle Lextrait, Takahiro Hosokawa, Vincent Lesieur, Kazutaka Takeshita, Kanako Tago, Peter Mergaert, and Yoshitomo Kikuchi. 2022. “Intercontinental Diversity of Caballeronia Gut Symbionts in the Conifer Pest Bug Leptoglossus Occidentalis.” Microbes and Environments 37 (3): ME22042. https://doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME22042.

Wallner, Adrian, Nicolas Busset, Joy Lachat, Ludivine Guigard, Eoghan King, Isabelle Rimbault, Peter Mergaert, Gilles Béna, and Lionel Moulin. 2022. “Differential Genetic Strategies of Burkholderia Vietnamiensis and Paraburkholderia Kururiensis for Root Colonization of Oryza Sativa Subsp. Japonica and O. Sativa Subsp. Indica, as Revealed by Transposon Mutagenesis Sequencing.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 88 (14): e00642-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00642-22.

diCenzo, George C., Lisa Cangioli, Quentin Nicoud, Janis H. T. Cheng, Matthew J. Blow, Nicole Shapiro, Tanja Woyke, et al. 2022. “DNA Methylation in Ensifer Species during Free-Living Growth and during Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis with Medicago Spp.” MSystems, January. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.01092-21.

Jang, Seonghan, Yu Matsuura, Kota Ishigami, Peter Mergaert, and Yoshitomo Kikuchi. 2022. “Symbiont Coordinates Stem Cell Proliferation, Apoptosis, and Morphogenesis of Gut Symbiotic Organ in the Stinkbug-Caballeronia Symbiosis.” Frontiers in Physiology 13:1071987. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.1071987.

Ortega-del Campo, Sergio, Ioana Grigoras, Tatiana Timchenko, Bruno Gronenborn, and Ana Grande-Pérez. 2021. “Twenty Years of Evolution and Diversification of Digitaria Streak Virus in Digitaria Setigera.” Virus Evolution 7 (2): veab083. https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veab083.

Bertini, Elisa Violeta, Mariela Analía Torres, Thibaut Léger, Camille Garcia, Kar-Wai Hong, Teik Min Chong, Lucía I. Castellanos de Figueroa, et al. 2021. “Insight in the Quorum Sensing-Driven Lifestyle of the Non-Pathogenic Agrobacterium Tumefaciens 6N2 and the Interactions with the Yeast Meyerozyma Guilliermondii.” Genomics, November, S0888-7543(21)00400-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2021.11.017.

Busset, Nicolas, Djamel Gully, Albin Teulet, Joël Fardoux, Alicia Camuel, David Cornu, Dany Severac, Eric Giraud, and Peter Mergaert. 2021. “The Type III Effectome of the Symbiotic Bradyrhizobium Vignae Strain ORS3257.” Biomolecules 11 (11): 1592. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11111592.

Torres, Marta, Audren Jiquel, Etienne Jeanne, Delphine Naquin, Yves Dessaux, and Denis Faure. 2021. “Agrobacterium Tumefaciens Fitness Genes Involved in the Colonization of Plant Tumors and Roots.” New Phytologist 233 (2): 905–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17810.

Nicoud, Quentin, Quentin Barrière, Nicolas Busset, Sara Dendene, Dmitrii Travin, Mickaël Bourge, Romain Le Bars, et al. 2021. “Sinorhizobium Meliloti Functions Required for Resistance to Antimicrobial NCR Peptides and Bacteroid Differentiation.” MBio 12 (4): e0089521. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00895-21.

Bouznif, Besma, Benoit Alunni, Mohamed Mars, Jacqui A. Shykoff, Tatiana Timchenko, and Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega. 2021. “Draft Genome Sequences of Nitrogen-Fixing Bradyrhizobia Isolated from Root Nodules of Peanut, Arachis Hypogaea, Cultivated in Southern Tunisia.” Microbiology Resource Announcements 10 (29): e0043421. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00434-21.

Nicoud, Quentin, Florian Lamouche, Anaïs Chaumeret, Thierry Balliau, Romain Le Bars, Mickaël Bourge, Fabienne Pierre, et al. 2021. “Bradyrhizobium Diazoefficiens USDA110 Nodulation of Aeschynomene Afraspera Is Associated with Atypical Terminal Bacteroid Differentiation and Suboptimal Symbiotic Efficiency.” MSystems 6 (3): e01237-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.01237-20.

Cigna, Jérémy, Angélique Laurent, Malgorzata Waleron, Krzysztof Waleron, Pauline Dewaegeneire, Jan van der Wolf, Didier Andrivon, Denis Faure, and Valérie Hélias. 2021. “European Population of Pectobacterium Punjabense: Genomic Diversity, Tuber Maceration Capacity and a Detection Tool for This Rarely Occurring Potato Pathogen.” Microorganisms 9 (4): 781. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040781.

Jang, Seonghan, Peter Mergaert, Tsubasa Ohbayashi, Kota Ishigami, Shuji Shigenobu, Hideomi Itoh, and Yoshitomo Kikuchi. 2021. “Dual Oxidase Enables Insect Gut Symbiosis by Mediating Respiratory Network Formation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (10). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020922118.

Faure, Denis. 2021. “Is There a Unique Integration Mechanism of Agrobacterium T-DNA into a Plant Genome?” The New Phytologist 229 (5): 2386–88. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17184.

Thomas, John E., Bruno Gronenborn, Robert M. Harding, Bikash Mandal, Ioana Grigoras, John W. Randles, Yoshitaka Sano, et al. 2021. “ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nanoviridae.” The Journal of General Virology, January. https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001544.

Hermes, Cornelia, René Richarz, Daniel A. Wirtz, Julian Patt, Wiebke Hanke, Stefan Kehraus, Jan Hendrik Voß, et al. 2021. “Thioesterase-Mediated Side Chain Transesterification Generates Potent Gq Signaling Inhibitor FR900359.” Nature Communications 12 (1): 144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20418-3.

Oulghazi, Said, Sohaib Sarfraz, Maja A. Zaczek-Moczydłowska, Slimane Khayi, Abdelaziz Ed-Dra, Yassir Lekbach, Katrina Campbell, Lucy Novungayo Moleleki, Richard O’Hanlon, and Denis Faure. 2021. “Pectobacterium Brasiliense: Genomics, Host Range and Disease Management.” Microorganisms 9 (1): 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9010106.

Padilla, Rosa, Vincent Gaillard, Thao Nhi Le, Floriant Bellvert, David Chapulliot, Xavier Nesme, Yves Dessaux, Ludovic Vial, Céline Lavire, and Isabelle Kerzaon. 2021. “Development and Validation of a UHPLC-ESI-QTOF Mass Spectrometry Method to Analyze Opines, Plant Biomarkers of Crown Gall or Hairy Root Diseases.” Journal of Chromatography B 1162 (January):122458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchromb.2020.122458.

Sarfraz, Sohaib, Saïd Oulghazi, Jérémy Cigna, Shahbaz Talib Sahi, Kashif Riaz, Muhammad Rizwan Tufail, Amna Fayyaz, et al. 2020. “Complete Genome Sequence of the Type Strain Pectobacterium Punjabense SS95, Isolated from a Potato Plant with Blackleg Symptoms.” Microbiology Resource Announcements 9 (32): e00420-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00420-20.

Kikuchi, Yoshitomo, Tsubasa Ohbayashi, Seonghan Jang, and Peter Mergaert. 2020. “Burkholderia Insecticola Triggers Midgut Closure in the Bean Bug Riptortus Pedestris to Prevent Secondary Bacterial Infections of Midgut Crypts.” The ISME Journal 14 (7): 1627–38. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0633-3.

Oulghazi, Saïd, Mohieddine Moumni, Slimane Khayi, Kévin Robic, Sohaib Sarfraz, Céline Lopez-Roques, Céline Vandecasteele, and Denis Faure. 2020. “Diversity of Pectobacteriaceae Species in Potato Growing Regions in Northern Morocco.” Microorganisms 8 (6): 895. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060895.

Sarfraz, Sohaib, Shahbaz Talib Sahi, Saïd Oulghazi, Kashif Riaz, Nasir Ahmed Rajput, Muhammad Atiq, Muhammad Rizwan Tufail, Akhtar Hameed, and Denis Faure. 2020. “Species Diversity of Dickeya and Pectobacterium Causing Potato Blackleg Disease in Pakistan.” Plant Disease 104 (5): 1492–99. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-08-19-1743-RE.

Rodríguez, Miguel, Marta Torres, Lydia Blanco, Victoria Béjar, Inmaculada Sampedro, and Inmaculada Llamas. 2020. “Plant Growth-Promoting Activity and Quorum Quenching-Mediated Biocontrol of Bacterial Phytopathogens by Pseudomonas Segetis Strain P6.” Scientific Reports 10 (1): 4121. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61084-1.

Mergaert, Peter. 2020. “Chapter Six - Differentiation of Symbiotic Nodule Cells and Their Rhizobium Endosymbionts.” In Advances in Botanical Research, edited by Pierre Frendo, Florian Frugier, and Catherine Masson-Boivin, 94:149–80. Regulation of Nitrogen-Fixing Symbioses in Legumes. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.abr.2019.09.008.

Ohbayashi, Tsubasa, Peter Mergaert, and Yoshitomo Kikuchi. 2020. “Chapter Two - Host-Symbiont Specificity in Insects: Underpinning Mechanisms and Evolution.” In Advances in Insect Physiology, edited by Kerry M. Oliver and Jacob A. Russell, 58:27–62. Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Symbiosis. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aiip.2020.03.002.

Mergaert, Peter, Attila Kereszt, and Eva Kondorosi. 2020. “Gene Expression in Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiotic Nodule Cells in Medicago Truncatula and Other Nodulating Plants.” The Plant Cell 32 (1): 42–68. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00494.

Goto, Shiori, Tsubasa Ohbayashi, Kazutaka Takeshita, Teruo Sone, Yu Matsuura, Peter Mergaert, and Yoshitomo Kikuchi. 2020. “A Peptidoglycan Amidase Mutant of Burkholderia Insecticola Adapts an L-Form-like Shape in the Gut Symbiotic Organ of the Bean Bug Riptortus Pedestris.” Microbes and Environments 35 (4). https://doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME20107.

Lima, Rui M., Salome Kylarová, Peter Mergaert, and Éva Kondorosi. 2020. “Unexplored Arsenals of Legume Peptides With Potential for Their Applications in Medicine and Agriculture.” Frontiers in Microbiology 11:1307. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01307.

Vigouroux, Armelle, Jeanne Dore, Loic Marty, Magali Aumont-Nicaise, Pierre Legrand, Yves Dessaux, Ludovic Vial, and Solange Moréra. 2020. “Import Pathways of the Mannityl-Opines into the Bacterial Pathogen Agrobacterium Tumefaciens: Structural, Affinity and in Vivo Approaches.” The Biochemical Journal 477:615–28. https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20190886.

Itoh, Hideomi, Seonghan Jang, Kazutaka Takeshita, Tsubasa Ohbayashi, Naomi Ohnishi, Xian-Ying Meng, Yasuo Mitani, and Yoshitomo Kikuchi. 2019. “Host-Symbiont Specificity Determined by Microbe-Microbe Competition in an Insect Gut.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (45): 22673–82. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912397116.

Travin, Dmitrii Y., Zoe L. Watson, Mikhail Metelev, Fred R. Ward, Ilya A. Osterman, Irina M. Khven, Nelli F. Khabibullina, et al. 2019. “Structure of Ribosome-Bound Azole-Modified Peptide Phazolicin Rationalizes Its Species-Specific Mode of Bacterial Translation Inhibition.” Nature Communications 10 (1): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12589-5.

Teulet, Albin, Nicolas Busset, Joël Fardoux, Djamel Gully, Clémence Chaintreuil, Fabienne Cartieaux, Alain Jauneau, et al. 2019. “The Rhizobial Type III Effector ErnA Confers the Ability to Form Nodules in Legumes.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (43): 21758–68. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904456116.

Portier, Perrine, Jacques Pédron, Géraldine Taghouti, Marion Fischer-Le Saux, Emma Caullireau, Claire Bertrand, Angélique Laurent, et al. 2019. “Elevation of Pectobacterium Carotovorum Subsp. Odoriferum to Species Level as Pectobacterium Odoriferum Sp. Nov., Proposal of Pectobacterium Brasiliense Sp. Nov. and Pectobacterium Actinidiae Sp. Nov., Emended Description of Pectobacterium Carotovorum and Description of Pectobacterium Versatile Sp. Nov., Isolated from Streams and Symptoms on Diverse Plants.” International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 69 (10): 3207–16. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003611.