Gram-negative phytopathogens cause significant losses in a diverse range of economically important crop plants. The effectiveness of traditional countermeasures, such as the breeding and introduction of resistant cultivars, is often limited by the dearth of available sources of genetic resistance. An alternative strategy to reduce loss to specific bacterial phytopathogens is to use narrow-spectrum protein antibiotics such as colicin-like bacteriocins as biocontrol agents. A number of colicin-like bacteriocins active against phytopathogenic bacteria have been described previously as have strategies for their application to biocontrol. In the present paper, we discuss these strategies and our own recent work on the identification and characterization of candidate bacteriocins and how these potent and selective antimicrobial agents can be effectively applied to the control of economically important plant disease.
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Rhys Grinter;
Rhys Grinter
*Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8AT, U.K.
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Joel Milner;
Joel Milner
†Plant Science Research Theme, School of Life Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8AT, U.K.
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Daniel Walker
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*Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8AT, U.K.
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
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September 14 2012
Online ISSN: 1470-8752
Print ISSN: 0300-5127
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Biochem Soc Trans (2012) 40 (6): 1498–1502.
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Rhys Grinter, Joel Milner, Daniel Walker; Bacteriocins active against plant pathogenic bacteria. Biochem Soc Trans 1 December 2012; 40 (6): 1498–1502. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20120206
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