Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum occurs on solanaceous plant species, such as tomato, potato, and tobacco. R. pseudosolanacearum can survive in the soil, plant, and even agricultural tools. So, R. pseudosolanacearum can be spread ...
Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum occurs on solanaceous plant species, such as tomato, potato, and tobacco. R. pseudosolanacearum can survive in the soil, plant, and even agricultural tools. So, R. pseudosolanacearum can be spread by contaminated soil, infected plants, and contaminated agriculture tools. The most widely used method of controlling R. pseudosolanacearum was a chemical method through soil fumigation. However, the chemical control method had the disadvantage of killing the soil microbes non-specifically and creating the soil dysbiosis, which reduced the bacterial diversity in the soil. Therefore, the particular targeting control of R. pseudosolanacearum was needed for overcoming the broad kill of soil microbes and decrease of the soil bacterial diversity using the chemical compound. In the study, a new strategy for specific control of R. pseudosolanacearum was studied by using host-induced gene silencing. The mechanism of HIGS was employed to silence the virulence gene in pathogens by expressing homologous dsRNAs in the host plant. HIGS system has been studied as a method for controlling eukaryotic phytopathogens, such as fungi, nematodes, insects, and parasitic plants. However, study of control using translocated siRNA from plant to bacterial pathogen was lacking. In my study, the prokaryotic phytopathogen were controlled in plant using HIGS system.