Université de Fribourg

Contribution of hydrogen cyanide to the antagonistic activity of Pseudomonas strains against Phytophthora infestans

Anand, Abhishek ; Chinchilla, Delphine ; Tan, Christopher ; Mène-Saffrané, Laurent ; L’Haridon, Floriane ; Weisskopf, Laure

In: Microorganisms, 2020, vol. 8, no. 8, p. 1144

Plants face many biotic and abiotic challenges in nature; one of them is attack by disease-causing microbes. Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late blight is one of the most prominent pathogens of the potato responsible for multi-billion-dollar losses every year. We have previously reported that potato-associated Pseudomonas strains inhibited P. infestans at various developmental...