Publications by authors named "Sang Tae Seo"

Thunb., also known as the evergreen spindle tree, is an evergreen tree, which is widely planted as a hedge plant along streets in South Korea. In April 2022, severe anthracnose symptoms were observed on the leaves of this tree in Jangsu in the Jeonbuk Province of the country (35°43'49.

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Machilus thunbergii Siebold & Zucc., known as Japanese bay tree, is an evergreen tree distributed widely in East Asia, including South Korea, where the species is of ecological importance. Machilus thunbergii provides habitat for wildlife species and is a common urban tree.

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The present study describes the bacterial blight of walnut, caused by Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis (Xaj) in the northern Gyeongbuk province, Korea. Disease symptoms that appear very similar to anthracnose symptoms were observed in walnut trees in June 2016.

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Background: Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is a migratory endoparasitic nematode known to cause severe environmental damage and economic losses in pine forest ecosystems. This present study investigated the nematicidal metabolites of actinomycetes in vitro and evaluated the disease control efficacy of the active compound and metabolites under greenhouse and field conditions.

Results: Five thousand types of actinobacteria from Korean forest soil samples were screened to identify novel nematicidal agents against the pine wood nematode.

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Pine wilt disease, caused by the nematode , is one of the most devastating conifer diseases decimating several species of pine trees on a global scale. Here, we report the draft genome of MG, which is isolated from mountain-cultivated ginseng plant as an bacterial endophyte and shows nematicidal activity against . Our analysis of MG genome showed that it possesses many genes encoding potential nematicidal factors in addition to some secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters that may contribute to the observed nematicidal activity of the strain.

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Five new lactones, litsenolide F (1), lisealactone H (10), lisealactone H (11), akolactone D (13), and akolactone E (14), along with thirteen known compounds were isolated from the pericarps of Litsea japonica (Thunb.) Jussieu. Their chemical structures were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analyses, including 1D and 2D NMR, HRMS, and chemical methods.

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Avermectin produced by Streptomyces avermitilis is an anti-nematodal agent against the pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. However, its potential usage is limited by its poor water solubility. For this reason, continuous efforts are underway to produce new derivatives that are more water soluble.

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To examine the effects of water stress and Cenangium ferruginosum (CF) on the fungal endophytic community of needles of Pinus koraiensis (PK), fungal endophytes isolated from the needles of 5-year-old PK seedlings were compared before and after exposure to water stress conditions and artificial inoculation with CF ascospores. Artificial CF inoculation was successfully confirmed using PCR with CF-specific primers (CfF and CfR). For comparison of the degree of water deficit in water-stressed and control groups of PK seedlings infected with CF, the water saturation deficit and water potential were measured.

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In Korea, mass mortality of Quercus mongolica trees has become obvious since 2004. Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae is believed to be a causal fungus contributing the mortality. To evaluate the pathogenicity of the fungus to the trees, the fungus was multiple- and single-inoculated to the seedlings and twigs of the mature trees, respectively.

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The ambrosia beetle, Platypus koryoensis, is an economically important pest affecting oak trees in Korea. Candida kashinagacola was isolated from galleries of the beetle in oak wood and identified by analyses of morphology, physiological properties, and nucleotide sequence of the large subunit ribosomal DNA. This is the first report on Candida species associated with oak wilt disease vectored by the ambrosia beetle, Platypus koryoensis, in Korea.

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The ambrosia beetle, Platypus koryoensis, is a serious pest of oak trees in Korea. In this study we investigated filamentous fungi present in the body of the beetle. Fourteen genera of filamentous fungi belonging to Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were isolated.

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A polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method was developed to detect the DNA of Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal agent of bacterial wilt in various crop plants. One pair of primers (RALSF and RALSR), designed using cytochrome c1 signal peptide sequences specific to R. solanacearum, produced a PCR product of 932 bp from 13 isolates of R.

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Thirty-five strains of Burkholderia cenocepacia from clinical and environmental sources were characterized genotypically by repetitive sequence PCR (ERIC- and BOX-PCR) and polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) analysis of the flagellin gene (fliC). In cluster analysis based on the repetitive PCR profiles the strains were composed of five clusters, of which clusters 1, 2 and 3 were more closely related to each other than to clusters 4 and 5. It has been reported that the majority of Burkholderia cepacia complex strains can be separated into two types on the basis of fliC size (types I and II correspond to 1.

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