Abstract
The genus Burkholderia is a versatile member of class Proteobacteria with over a hundred validly described species. Though endowed with a vast ecological diversity and metabolic versatility, the agro-biotechnological use of members of this genus has remained highly restricted over the past few decades owing to the pathogenic nature of nearly twenty species classified as the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc), B. pseudomallei the causative agent of melioidosis, B. mallei the causative agent of glanders disease in equines and a few plant pathogenic species. Despite the presence of several environmental isolates with beneficial traits, they were overshadowed by their pathogenic relatives. Though initial attempts were made to segregate the clinical and environmental isolates based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences and multilocus sequence typing (MLST), they have failed to remove the stigma associated with the genus. In order to enable the utilization of this genus in agro-biotechnological applications, attempts were made to bifurcate the genus based on phylogenetic evidence. While an earlier attempt to this effect was unsuccessful, the attempt in describing the novel genus Paraburkholderia based on the presence of conserved sequence indels and its subsequent taxonomical validation have opened up the possibilities of utilizing this genus that largely remains untainted by any pathogenic potential. But the widespread use of members of this novel genus has to follow a cautious path in order to eliminate any possibility of mammalian pathogenicity and the possible transfer of virulence genes from the members of genus Burkholderia. If such concerted steps are taken up, we shall be adding one more potential genus for agro-biotechnological applications.
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Chandandeep Kaur was supported by a grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, under the WOS-A scheme.
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Kaur, C., Selvakumar, G., Ganeshamurthy, A.N. (2017). Burkholderia to Paraburkholderia: The Journey of a Plant-Beneficial-Environmental Bacterium. In: Shukla, P. (eds) Recent advances in Applied Microbiology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5275-0_10
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