#xanthomonads
Starting my BlueSky experience with last week's poster about our community-curated #DokuWiki resource on #diagnostics, #diversity, #pathogenicity and genetic control of #xanthomonads: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#T3SS | #effector | #resistance | #xanthomonas
January 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Also we have almost a mini special issue on bacterial nutrition strategies during plant Xanthomonas infection.

Firstly, Wang et al investigate how bacteria use xanthosan to feed themselves and develop a strategy to exploit this for resistance:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(3/5) #plantscience
A bacterial nutrition strategy for plant disease control
Xanthomonas spp. cause serious diseases in more than 400 plant species. The conserved AvrBs2 family effectors are among the most important virulence factors in xanthomonads, but how AvrBs2 promotes in...
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Allelic Diversity and Core Conservation of Type III Effectors Across Xanthomonads Causing Bacterial Spot of Pepper and Tomato https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.04.742720v1
August 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Sure, but it’s still early days and this was the first bacterial plant pathogen sequenced (as far as I know, though some Xanthomonads and Xylella appeared soon after). We plant pathologists do crave a bit of recognition! 😉
August 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
[#phimscience] 🥳Read the NEW perspective from the French network on Xanthomonads @AgenceRecherche @COSTprogramm @ird_fr @Cirad @inrae-france.bsky.social published in @peercommunityin.bsky.social
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first Xanthomonas genome sequences – how genomics revolutionized taxonomy, provided insight into the emergence of pathogenic bacteria, enabled new fundamenta...
peercommunityjournal.org
February 28, 2024 at 5:19 PM
#Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni (XAP) causes bacterial spot in Prunus, and copper sprays have been widely used to manage this disease. Milan Panth et al. report and characterize the first copper-resistant strain of XAP, first isolated in North Carolina: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-25-0338-R
April 22, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Allelic Diversity and Core Conservation of Type III Effectors Across Xanthomonads Causing Bacterial Spot of Pepper and Tomato https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.04.742720v1
August 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
“Rapid Population Flux in Bacterial Spot Xanthomonads During a Transition in Dominance Between Two Genotypes in Consecutive Tomato Production Seasons and Identification of a New Species, Xanthomonas oklahomensis sp. nov.,” by Brett Johnson et al.: https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-25-0734-SR
June 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM
The Specific Genetic Markers to Diagnose Xanthomonads Infecting Pepper and Tomato Plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.21.634051v1
January 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Rapid population flux in bacterial spot xanthomonads during a transition in dominance between two genotypes in consecutive tomato production seasons and identification of a new species Xanthomonas oklahomensis sp. nov. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.13.648550v1
April 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The Type II secreted subtilase IssA in Dyella japonica MF79 cleaves flg22 and AtPEP1 peptides in vitro and suppresses plant immune activation. IssA homologs are well-conserved, especially Xanthomonads.

Fascinating mechanism reported in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social!

www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A type II secreted subtilase from commensal rhizobacteria cleaves immune elicitor peptides and suppresses flg22-induced immune activation
Eastman, Jiang, and Ficco et al. screen 165 root-associated bacteria for suppression of plant immune activation and growth restriction induced by the peptide immune elicitor flg22. They show that Dyella japonica uses the type II secreted subtilase IssA to cleave the peptide immune elicitors flg22 and AtPEP1 and suppress plant immune activation.
www.cell.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Rapid population flux in bacterial spot xanthomonads during a transition in dominance between two genotypes in consecutive tomato production seasons and identification of a new species Xanthomonas oklahomensis sp. nov. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.13.648550v1
April 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Rapid population flux in bacterial spot xanthomonads during a transition in dominance between two genotypes in consecutive tomato production seasons and identification of a new species Xanthomonas oklahomensis sp. nov. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.13.648550v1
April 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM