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Interactions Between Yeasts and Grapevines: Filamentous Growth, Endopolygalacturonase and Phytopathogenicity of Colonizing Yeasts

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It has been clearly established that phytopathogenic fungi, bacteria, and viruses exert biotic stresses on plants. Much less is known, however, about the interactions between enological species of yeast and their host plants. In a previous study, we described how Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the most common enological yeast, can act as a grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) pathogen, causing growth retardation or plant death. In the present in vitro study on 11 strains of yeast belonging to different genera, which often occur on the surfaces of vineyard grapes and V. vinifera, a link was found to exist between strain phytopathogenecity and pseudohyphal growth habits and/or endopolygalacturonase activity. The results obtained here are consistent with earlier findings showing that the phytopathogenicity of yeast strains depends on the filamentous growth process, and show that endopolygalacturonase alone is not responsible for the invasion of plants tissues. The mechanisms observed here may be of significant ecological importance and may help to explain the long periods of yeast survival found to occur in vineyards.

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The authors would like to thank Mrs Jessica Blanc for her careful reading of the manuscript. This research was supported by a grant from Europol'agro.

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    Sabine Gognies, Angélique Gainvors-Claisse & Abdel Belarbi

  2. Laboratoire de Stress, Defénses et Reproduction des Plantes, Université de Reims, UFR Sciences, URVVC, UPRES EA 2069, B.P. 1039, 51687, Reims Cedex 2, France

    Essaïd Ait Barka

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Gognies, S., Barka, E.A., Gainvors-Claisse, A. et al. Interactions Between Yeasts and Grapevines: Filamentous Growth, Endopolygalacturonase and Phytopathogenicity of Colonizing Yeasts. Microb Ecol 51, 109–116 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-005-0098-y

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