Control of leaf scald disease

Abstract

A method of substantially reducing or inhibiting the development of leaf scald disease in a plant or stalk thereof, said method comprising the step of administering an albicidin detoxification enzyme to the plant or stalk thereof. There is also provided a method of generating a transgenic plant substantially resistant to albicidin and leaf scald disease including the steps of introducing and expressing a nucleotide sequence encoding albicidin detoxification enzyme into a plant, plant part or plant cell, and growing the plant, plant part or plant cell to generate the transgenic plant. There is further provided a method of substantially reducing or inhibiting the development of leaf scald disease in a plant or stalk thereof, said method comprising the step of administering to the plant or stalk thereof a bacterium which extracellularly produces albicidin detoxification enzyme. There is further provided an isolated albicidin detoxification enzyme capable of irreversibly inactivating albicidin as well as an isolated nucelotide sequence encoding an albicidin detoxification enzyme.

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