Gall-ID: tools for genotyping gall-causing phytopathogenic bacteria
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Agricultural Science, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Microbiology, Taxonomy
- Keywords
- taxonomy, genomes, Molecular diagnostics, Multilocus sequence analysis, Average nucleotide identity, Agrobacterium, Rhodococcus
- Copyright
- © 2016 Davis II et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Gall-ID: tools for genotyping gall-causing phytopathogenic bacteria. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1998v3 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1998v3
Abstract
Understanding the population structure and genetic diversity of plant pathogens, as well as the effect of agricultural practices on pathogen evolution, are important for disease management. Developments in molecular methods have contributed to increasing the resolution for accurate pathogen identification but those based on analysis of DNA sequences can be less straightforward to use. To address this, we developed Gall-ID, a web-based platform that uses DNA sequence information from 16S rDNA, multilocus sequence analysis and whole genome sequences to group disease-associated bacteria to their taxonomic units. Gall-ID was developed with a particular focus on gall-forming bacteria belonging to Agrobacterium, Pseudomonas savastanoi, Pantoea agglomerans, and Rhodococcus. Members of these groups of bacteria cause growth deformation of plants, and some are capable of infecting many species of field, orchard, and nursery crops. Gall-ID also enables the use of high-throughput sequencing reads to search for evidence for homologs of characterized virulence genes, and provides downloadable software pipelines for automating multilocus sequence analysis, analyzing genome sequences for average nucleotide identity, and constructing core genome phylogenies. Lastly, additional databases were included in Gall-ID to help determine the identity of other plant pathogenic bacteria that may be in microbial communities associated with galls or causative agents in other diseased tissues of plants. The URL for Gall-ID is http://gall-id.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/.
Author Comment
The citation, "Tabima et al., submitted" was changed to Tabima et al. 2016 and the reference, "Tabima JF, Everhart, SE, Larsen, MM, Weisberg, AJ, Kamvar, ZN, Tancos, MA, Smart, CD, Chang, JH, and Grünwald, NJ. 2016. Microbe-ID: An open source toolbox for microbial genotyping and species identification. PeerJ Preprints 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2005v1" was added.
Supplemental Information
Comparison of Velvet to SPAdes assemblies of 14 isolates associated with crown gall
Validation of the Phytopath-type tool
The 16S rDNA sequence from isolate originally labeled as Agrobacterium isolate 14-2641 was analyzed using the Phytopath-type tool. The isolate is labeled in red, as “query_isolate”; inset shows the clade that circumscribes the isolate.
The SPAdes assembler produces high quality assemblies
Genome sequences assembled using Velvet v. 1.2.10 (blue) and SPAdes v. 3.7.0 (orange) were compared based on scaffold N50 and number of scaffolds greater than 1kb in size.
Whole genome alignment of 13-626 assemblies to a close reference sequence indicates collinearity of genomes
The A. radiobacter K84 genome sequence (top) and assemblies of 13-626 generated using SPAdes v. 3.7.0 (middle; 47 scaffolds) and Velvet (bottom; 527 scaffolds) were aligned using Mauve. Shared locally collinear blocks (LCBs) between the reference and the two assemblies are color-coded and connected by color-coded lines. Scaffold and replicon ends are depicted as vertical red lines.