Publications by authors named "Con J Baker"
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- - Phytoplasmas are bacteria without cell walls that cause abnormal plant growth and diseases, leading to significant economic losses, largely because they rely on nutrients from host plants due to gene loss during evolution.
- - This study used metabolomics to analyze changes in sweet cherry trees infected with SCV phytoplasma, identifying 676 metabolites, with 187 showing significant alterations, primarily in carbohydrates, fatty acids/lipids, amino acids, and flavonoids.
- - The research indicated that phytoplasma infection enhances certain metabolic pathways in plants, aiding in nutrient acquisition and energy production, thus revealing how phytoplasmas reprogram host plant metabolism for their own benefits.
Pseudomonas syringae infects diverse crop plants and comprises at least 50 different pathovar strains with different host ranges. More information on the physiological and molecular effects of the host inhibitory environment on the pathogen is needed to develop resistant cultivars. Recently, we reported an in vitro model system that mimics the redox pulse associated with the oxidative burst in plant cells inoculated with Pseudomonas syringae pv.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study demonstrates that the accumulation of apoplastic phenolics is stimulated in planta in response to bacterial inoculation. Past studies have shown that levels of extracellular phenolics are elicited in plant cell suspensions in response to bacteria, and that tomato plants infected with viroids showed changes in apoplastic phenolics. The method described here monitored changes in apoplastic phenolics in tobacco leaves following bacterial inoculation of the same tissue.
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