Surface Survival and Internalization of Salmonella through Natural Cracks on Developing Cantaloupe Fruits, Alone or in the Presence of the Melon Wilt Pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila
Figure 5
Confocal laser scanning microscope images of cantaloupe rind surfaces.
(A) Fruit rind surface inoculated with S. enterica Poona (labeled with DsRedExpress) and sampled at 0 DPI, (B) Fruit rind surface inoculated with a mixture of S. enterica Poona + E. tracheiphila (labeled with GFPuv) and sampled at 0 DPI (C) Fruit rind surface inoculated with E. tracheiphila and sampled at 0 DPI and (D) Longitudinal section of rind containing watersoaked lesion and sampled at 24 DPI; E. tracheiphila in the intercellular spaces (arrow) (inoculated with mixture of S. enterica plus E. tracheiphila). The scale bars represent 5 µm.