The Ohio State University

Sally Miller

Gireesh Rajashekara

Yosra A Helmy

Dipak Kathayat

Xiulan Xu

Loic Deblais

James Fuchs

Corey Nislow

Disclosed herein are methods of treating a subject with a bacterial infection, or preventing a bacterial infection, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of at least one compound, or a derivative thereof, having the formula of SM1, SM3, SM4, or SM5. Also described are methods of inhibiting bacterial growth in a plant comprising contacting the plant with an effective amount of at least one compound, or a derivative thereof, having the formula of SM1, SM3, SM4, or SM5. The methods are effective against an array of bacterial pathogens in various animals and plants.

Methods to control infection using new generation small molecule growth inhibitors

The subject matter disclosed herein generally relates to modulators ofsubsp., derivatives thereof, formulations thereof, coated seeds, and methods of using such compounds to treat diseases such as bacterial canker in plants.

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subsp.(Cmm) is an important Gram-positive-bacterial pathogen that infects tomato plants causing wilting and cankers and leading to severe economic losses in commercial tomato production worldwide. In order to visualize the infection process of Cmm in germinating seeds, bioluminescent Cmm strains were constructed by transforming the lux reporter gene into the bacterium. A vector pXX2 was constructed by inserting a modified promoterless lux-operon to a Cmm transposon mutagenesis vector, pKGT452C&#x3b2;. After electroporation, pXX2 carrying the Cmx::luxABCDE::Tn1409 cassette resulted in insertion of lux-operon into the Cmm chromosome. The virulent, stable, constitutively bioluminescent strain BL-Cmm17 was selected for further characterization of growth properties and inoculation on tomato seeds. Using this bioluminescent strain, Cmm colonization dynamics of germinating seeds were monitored in real-time using the in vivo imaging system (IVIS).

Methods and compositions relating to bioluminescent microorganisms

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Wooster, OH, United States of America

Sally Miller