Title |
Baseline survey of the anatomical microbial ecology of an important food plant: Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)
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Published in |
BMC Microbiology, May 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-13-114 |
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Authors |
Andrea R Ottesen, Antonio González Peña, James R White, James B Pettengill, Cong Li, Sarah Allard, Steven Rideout, Marc Allard, Thomas Hill, Peter Evans, Errol Strain, Steven Musser, Rob Knight, Eric Brown |
Abstract |
Research to understand and control microbiological risks associated with the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables has examined many environments in the farm to fork continuum. An important data gap however, that remains poorly studied is the baseline description of microflora that may be associated with plant anatomy either endemically or in response to environmental pressures. Specific anatomical niches of plants may contribute to persistence of human pathogens in agricultural environments in ways we have yet to describe. Tomatoes have been implicated in outbreaks of Salmonella at least 17 times during the years spanning 1990 to 2010. Our research seeks to provide a baseline description of the tomato microbiome and possibly identify whether or not there is something distinctive about tomatoes or their growing ecology that contributes to persistence of Salmonella in this important food crop. |
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