DNA sequence variation and phylogenetic relationships among strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae inferred from restriction site maps and restriction fragment length polymorphism.
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Legard, D E
RESUMO
We evaluated the restriction fragment length polymorphism of genomic DNA among 53 strains of the phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae. Twenty-nine strains were isolated from beans, and the rest were isolated from 11 other hosts. Southern blots of DNA digested with EcoRI or HindIII were hybridized to two random probes from a cosmid library of P. syringae pv. syringae and a hrp (hypersensitive reaction and pathogenicity) cluster cloned from P. syringae pv. syringae. The size of hybridizing fragments was determined, and a similarity matrix was constructed by comparing strains on a pairwise basis for the presence or absence of fragments. The proportion of shared fragments was then used to estimate sequence divergence. Dendrograms were produced by using the unweighted pair group method with averages and the neighbor-joining method. For the hrp region, BamHI, EcoRI, EcoRV, and HindIII restriction sites were mapped for six representative bean strains and used to construct EcoRI and HindIII restriction maps for all 30 strains pathogenic on beans. Restriction mapping revealed the presence of a 3-kb insertion in nine bean strains and a probable second insertion or deletion event on the left-hand side of the hrp cluster that biased estimates of nucleotide sequence divergence from fragment comparisons. This demonstrated that the determination of phylogenetic relationships among bacteria by using restriction fragment length polymorphism data requires mapping restriction sites to remove the effect of insertion or deletion events on the analysis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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