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Mycin and peptin lipopeptides are major contributors to the biocontrol of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum by Pseudomonas mediterranea

2025· article· en· W4411148328 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBiological Control · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPlant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
Canadian institutionsUniversité de MonctonMcGill UniversityAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
FundersAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
KeywordsSclerotinia sclerotiorumBiologyBiological pest controlPseudomonasBotanyMicrobiologyBacteria

Abstract

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The fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is the causal agent of the white mold disease in several economically important crops. Control methods are currently limited to the use of synthetic fungicides and resistance to these fungicides is increasing. Biological control may prove to be a more sustainable control strategy for this disease, as well as other fungal diseases. In a previous study, our team identified Pseudomonas strains that can reduce white mold symptom severity in lettuce. The exact mechanisms underlying this biocontrol were not explored, but the biocontrol activity of these Pseudomonas strains strongly correlated with the presence of three gene clusters involved in the biosynthesis of the lipopeptides brabantamides, corpeptin, and thanamycin. In this study, to better understand the mechanisms at play and progress towards the development of a Pseudomonas -based biocontrol inoculant against S. sclerotiorum , key genes involved in the biosynthesis of these lipopeptides were knocked out in the genome of P. mediterranea B21-060. The impact that the loss of function had on the ability of P. mediterranea to inhibit the growth or S. sclerotiorum in vitro and control white mold development in planta was evaluated. Production of corpeptin and thanamycin by P. mediterranea was required to repress the growth of S. sclerotiorum and suppress white mold symptom development in lettuce. Furthermore, corpeptin and thanamycin were also identified as key inhibitory molecules against Botrytis cinerea and Rhizoctonia solani , two other important fungal pathogens. This study highlights the potential of corpeptin and thanamycin in Pseudomonas-mediated control of different fungal plant diseases.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.935
Threshold uncertainty score0.288

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it