Phage combination therapies for bacterial wilt disease in tomato

• Published in: Nature biotechnology Vol. 37; no. 12; pp. 1513 - 1520
• Main Authors: Wang, Xiaofang, Wei, Zhong, Yang, Keming, Wang, Jianing, Jousset, Alexandre, Xu, Yangchun, Shen, Qirong, Friman, Ville-Petri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.12.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/158/1745; 631/158/2456; 631/158/855; 631/326/2565/2134; 631/61/168; Agriculture; Bacteria; Bacterial diseases of plants; Bacteriophages; Bacteriophages - genetics; Bioinformatics; Biological control; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology; Biomedicine; Biotechnology; Care and treatment; Diseases and pests; Environmental aspects; Field tests; Incidence; Life Sciences; Lycopersicon esculentum - microbiology; Microbiomes; Microbiota; Pathogens; Pest Control, Biological - methods; Pesticides; Phages; Plant Diseases - microbiology; Ralstonia solanacearum - genetics; Ralstonia solanacearum - pathogenicity; Ralstonia solanacearum - virology; Rhizosphere; Tomatoes; Wilt; China

Bacteriophages have been proposed as an alternative to pesticides to kill bacterial pathogens of crops. However, the efficacy of phage biocontrol is variable and poorly understood in natural rhizosphere microbiomes. We studied biocontrol efficacy of different phage combinations on Ralstonia solanace...