%0 Journal Article
%A Blanch Rojo, María
%A Legaz González, María Estrella
%A Vicente Córdoba, Carlos
%T Xanthan production by Xanthomonas albilineans infecting sugarcane stalks
%D 2008
%@ 0176-1617
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91747
%X Xanthomonas albilineans is the causal organism of leaf scald, a bacterial vascular disease of sugarcane. Xanthomonas may invade the parenchyma between the bundles and cause reddened pockets of gum, identified as a xanthan-like polysaccharide. Since xanthan contains glucuronic acid, the ability of Xanthomonas to produce an active UDP glucose dehydrogenase is often seen as a virulence factor. X. albilineans axenically cultured did not secrete xanthans to Willbrink liquid media, but the use of inoculated sugarcane tissues for producing and characterizing xanthans has been required. A hypothesis about the role of sugarcane polysaccharides to assure the production of bacterial xanthan is discussed.
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