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Kintlová M, Vrána J, Hobza R, Blavet N, Hudzieczek V. Transcriptome Response to Cadmium Exposure in Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:629089. [PMID: 34335638 PMCID: PMC8321094 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.629089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Cadmium is an environmental pollutant with high toxicity that negatively affects plant growth and development. To understand the molecular mechanisms of plant response to cadmium stress, we have performed a genome-wide transcriptome analysis on barley plants treated with an increased concentration of cadmium. Differential gene expression analysis revealed 10,282 deregulated transcripts present in the roots and 7,104 in the shoots. Among them, we identified genes related to reactive oxygen species metabolism, cell wall formation and maintenance, ion membrane transport and stress response. One of the most upregulated genes was PLANT CADMIUM RESISTACE 2 (HvPCR2) known to be responsible for heavy metal detoxification in plants. Surprisingly, in the transcriptomic data we identified four different copies of the HvPCR2 gene with a specific pattern of upregulation in individual tissues. Heterologous expression of all five barley copies in a Cd-sensitive yeast mutant restored cadmium resistance. In addition, four HvPCR2 were located in tandem arrangement in a single genomic region of the barley 5H chromosome. To our knowledge, this is the first example showing multiplication of the PCR2 gene in plants.
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- Martina Kintlová
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czechia
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Brno, Czechia
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, Olomouc, Czechia
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Brno, Czechia
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Fu W, da Silva Linge C, Gasic K. Genome-Wide Association Study of Brown Rot ( Monilinia spp.) Tolerance in Peach. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:635914. [PMID: 33790926 PMCID: PMC8006439 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.635914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Brown rot, caused by Monilinia spp., is one of the most important diseases on stone fruit worldwide. Severe yield loss can be caused by pre- and post-harvest fruit decay. Although some degree of tolerance has been reported in peach and almond, the genetic resistance in peach cultivars is still lacking. To date, only few genomic regions associated with brown rot response in fruit skin and flesh have been detected in peach. Previous studies suggested brown rot tolerance in peach being a polygenic quantitative trait. More information is needed to uncover the genetics behind brown rot tolerance in peach. To identify the genomic regions in peach associated with this trait, 26 cultivars and progeny from 9 crosses with 'Bolinha' sources of tolerance, were phenotyped across two seasons (2015 and 2016) for brown rot disease severity index in wounded and non-wounded fruits and genotyped using a newly developed 9+9K peach SNP array. Genome wide association study using single- and multi-locus methods by GAPIT version 3, mrMLM 4.0, GAPIT and G Model, revealed 14 reliable SNPs significantly associated with brown rot infection responses in peach skin (10) and flesh (4) across whole genome except for chromosome 3. Candidate gene analysis within the haplotype regions of the detected markers identified 25 predicted genes associated with pathogen infection response/resistance. Results presented here facilitate further understanding of genetics behind brown rot tolerance in peach and provide an important foundation for DNA-assisted breeding.
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
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Dutt M, Dhekney SA, Soriano L, Kandel R, Grosser JW. Temporal and spatial control of gene expression in horticultural crops. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2014; 1:14047. [PMID: 26504550 PMCID: PMC4596326 DOI: 10.1038/hortres.2014.47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Revised: 07/19/2014] [Accepted: 08/06/2014] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Biotechnology provides plant breeders an additional tool to improve various traits desired by growers and consumers of horticultural crops. It also provides genetic solutions to major problems affecting horticultural crops and can be a means for rapid improvement of a cultivar. With the availability of a number of horticultural genome sequences, it has become relatively easier to utilize these resources to identify DNA sequences for both basic and applied research. Promoters play a key role in plant gene expression and the regulation of gene expression. In recent years, rapid progress has been made on the isolation and evaluation of plant-derived promoters and their use in horticultural crops, as more and more species become amenable to genetic transformation. Our understanding of the tools and techniques of horticultural plant biotechnology has now evolved from a discovery phase to an implementation phase. The availability of a large number of promoters derived from horticultural plants opens up the field for utilization of native sequences and improving crops using precision breeding. In this review, we look at the temporal and spatial control of gene expression in horticultural crops and the usage of a variety of promoters either isolated from horticultural crops or used in horticultural crop improvement.
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- Manjul Dutt
- Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 700 Experiment Station Road, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Sheridan Research and Extension Center, University of Wyoming, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA
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- Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 700 Experiment Station Road, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA
- Universidade de Sao Paulo, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Sheridan Research and Extension Center, University of Wyoming, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA
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- Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 700 Experiment Station Road, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA
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Delessert C, Kazan K, Wilson IW, Van Der Straeten D, Manners J, Dennis ES, Dolferus R. The transcription factor ATAF2 represses the expression of pathogenesis-related genes in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 43:745-57. [PMID: 16115070 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2005.02488.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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ATAF2, a member of the plant-specific NAC-domain transcription factor family, is highly induced in leaves at a wound site and is responsive to the wound-related phytohormones methyl jasmonate and salicylic acid, but not to abscisic acid. Overexpression of ATAF2 leads to an increased biomass and yellowing of the leaves, but there is no obvious phenotype in two independent ATAF2 T-DNA insertion lines. At the transcriptome level, ATAF2 overexpression resulted in repression of a number of pathogenesis-related proteins. Conversely, four of these pathogenesis-related transcripts were increased in both ATAF2 knock-out lines. ATAF2 overexpressing plants showed a higher susceptibility to the soil-borne fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum. Our results indicate that ATAF2 functions as a repressor of pathogenesis-related proteins in Arabidopsis.
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Manthey K, Krajinski F, Hohnjec N, Firnhaber C, Pühler A, Perlick AM, Küster H. Transcriptome profiling in root nodules and arbuscular mycorrhiza identifies a collection of novel genes induced during Medicago truncatula root endosymbioses. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2004; 17:1063-77. [PMID: 15497399 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.2004.17.10.1063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Transcriptome profiling based on cDNA array hybridizations and in silico screening was used to identify Medicago truncatula genes induced in both root nodules and arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM). By array hybridizations, we detected several hundred genes that were upregulated in the root nodule and the AM symbiosis, respectively, with a total of 75 genes being induced during both interactions. The second approach based on in silico data mining yielded several hundred additional candidate genes with a predicted symbiosis-enhanced expression. A subset of the genes identified by either expression profiling tool was subjected to quantitative real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction for a verification of their symbiosis-induced expression. That way, induction in root nodules and AM was confirmed for 26 genes, most of them being reported as symbiosis-induced for the first time. In addition to delivering a number of novel symbiosis-induced genes, our approach identified several genes that were induced in only one of the two root endosymbioses. The spatial expression patterns of two symbiosis-induced genes encoding an annexin and a beta-tubulin were characterized in transgenic roots using promoter-reporter gene fusions.
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- Katja Manthey
- Lehrstuhl für Genetik, Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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Mur LAJ, Xu R, Casson SA, Stoddart WM, Routledge APM, Draper J. Characterization of a proteinase inhibitor from Brachypodium distachyon suggests the conservation of defence signalling pathways between dicotyledonous plants and grasses. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2004; 5:267-80. [PMID: 20565595 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2004.00225.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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SUMMARY Proteinase inhibitors (PIs) are established markers for wound- and especially jasmonate-mediated signalling in dicot species such as tomato and potato. Differential screening of a cDNA library constructed from RNA isolated from wounded leaves of the grass Brachypodium distachyon led to the identification of a proteinase inhibitor gene (Bdpin1). Bdpin1 exhibited the highest homology to the subtilisin/chymotrypsin-inhibiting subgroup of the pin1 class of plant PIs. Northern analyses indicated that Bdpin1 was induced within 6 h at the site of wounding and systemically, by 24 h, thereby providing evidence for long-distance signalling in grasses. Bdpin1 also proved to be more rapidly induced in susceptible than in resistant ecotypes of B. distachyon following challenge with the Rice blast pathogen, Magnaporthe grisea. Screening with chemical signals indicated that Bdpin1 could be induced with MeJA but not with the putative mimic of salicylic acid, benzothiadiazole. Genomic Southern hybridization was consistent with Bdpin1 existing at a single locus, which was isolated following screening of a genomic cosmid library. DNA upstream of the Bdpin1 coding sequence was characterized via fusion to a GUS reporter and was found to confer wound-responsive transcription in B. distachyon and other cereals following biolistic bombardment. Both wound- and TMV-activated Bdpin1-GUS activity was detected in transgenic tobacco. Given that B. distachyon represents an ancestral grass species, our data suggest that there is considerable conservation in defence-associated signalling between dicots and grasses.
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- Luis A J Mur
- Institute of Biological Sciences, Edward Llwyd Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DA, UK
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Atkinson HJ, Urwin PE, McPherson MJ. Engineering plants for nematode resistance. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2003; 41:615-39. [PMID: 12730388 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.41.052002.095737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Biotechnology offers sustainable solutions to the problem of plant parasitic nematode control. There are several possible approaches for developing transgenic plants with improved nematode resistance; these include anti-invasion and migration strategies, feeding-cell attenuation, and antinematode feeding and development strategies. The essential elements of an effective control strategy are (a) genes that encode an antinematode effector protein, peptide or interfering RNA and (b) promoters that direct a specific pattern of expression for that effector. This review summarizes information on effectors that act directly against the nematode as well as those aimed at disrupting the nematode feeding site. We discuss patterns of promoter activity that could deliver expression of these effectors in a restricted and directed manner. Societal opposition to the technology of GM-nematode control is also discussed.
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- Howard J Atkinson
- Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
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Yen SK, Chung MC, Chen PC, Yen HE. Environmental and developmental regulation of the wound-induced cell wall protein WI12 in the halophyte ice plant. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2001. [PMID: 11598226 DOI: 10.1104/pp.010205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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A wounded gene WI12 was used as a marker to examine the interaction between biotic stress (wounding) and abiotic stress (high salt) in the facultative halophyte ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum). The deduced WI12 amino acid sequence has 68% similarity to WUN1, a known potato (Solanum tuberosum) wound-induced protein. Wounding, methyl jasmonate, and pathogen infection induced local WI12 expression. Upon wounding, the expression of WI12 reached a maximum level after 3 h in 4-week-old juvenile leaves, whereas the maximum expression was after 24 h in 8-week-old adult leaves. The temporal expression of WI12 in salt-stressed juvenile leaves was similar to that of adult leaves. The result suggests that a salt-induced switch from C3 to Crassulacean acid metabolism has a great influence on the ice plant's response to wounding. The expression of WI12 and the accumulation of WI12 protein were constitutively found in phloem and in wounded mesophyll cells. At the reproductive stage, WI12 was constitutively found in petals and styles, and developmentally regulated in the placenta and developing seeds. The histochemical analysis showed that the appearance of WI12 is controlled by both environmental and developmental factors. Immunogold labeling showed WI12 preferentially accumulates in the cell wall, suggesting its role in the reinforcement of cell wall composition after wounding and during plant development.
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- S K Yen
- Department of Botany, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
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Van der Straeten D, Rodrigues-Pousada RA, Villarroel R, Hanley S, Goodman HM, Van Montagu M. Cloning, genetic mapping, and expression analysis of an Arabidopsis thaliana gene that encodes 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:9969-73. [PMID: 1357670 PMCID: PMC50255 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.20.9969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A genomic clone of one member of the Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase (S-adenosyl-L-methionine methylthioadenosine-lyase, EC 4.4.1.14) gene family (AT-ACC1) was isolated and sequenced. A region of homology was found in the 5'-untranslated region with the promoter of a zucchini and a tomato ACC synthase gene. Comparison of its primary structure with other ACC synthases revealed conservation of seven peptide regions as well as similarity with 11 amino acids of the catalytic site of aminotransferases. Genomic DNA gel blotting suggested the existence of an ACC synthase multigene family in Arabidopsis, possibly with three other members, none of which is very closely related to AT-ACC1. The existence of at least one other gene was confirmed by the isolation of a cDNA (AT-ACC2) from a flower-specific cDNA library. The AT-ACC1 gene was mapped on the Arabidopsis restriction fragment length polymorphism map and is located on the top of chromosome 1. This position does not correspond to any known mutation on the genetic map. Expression of the AT-ACC1 gene was studied by reverse transcription-PCR on total RNA. Messenger accumulation was strong in young leaves and flowers. The gene was not induced by wounding of young leaves or in seedlings in the presence of auxin. Ethylene exposure of mature plants led to an induction of AT-ACC1 gene expression. It is suggested that AT-ACC1 protein has a role in developmental control of ethylene synthesis.
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Bhatt AM, Knowler JT. Tissue distribution and change in potato starch phosphorylase mRNA levels in wounded tissue and sprouting tubers. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992; 204:971-5. [PMID: 1372555 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb16718.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Starch phosphorylase has been cloned from a lambda gt10 cDNA library of potato tuber mRNA. Selected recombinants have been used to demonstrate that phosphorylase mRNA is most abundant in tubers but is also detectable in stolon, root, stem and leaf tissue. The level of phosphorylase mRNA was greatly reduced in wounded stem and tuber tissue. The wounding-induced decrease in phosphorylase mRNA levels is not reversed in the presence of sucrose or mannitol. Regional differences are described in the levels of phosphorylase and patatin mRNA in different parts of the tuber and in the shoot of sprouting potatoes.
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- A M Bhatt
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Beilmann A, Albrecht K, Schultze S, Wanner G, Pfitzner UM. Activation of a truncated PR-1 promoter by endogenous enhancers in transgenic plants. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1992; 18:65-78. [PMID: 1731979 DOI: 10.1007/bf00018457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023]
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PR-1 genes are induced by various environmental stimuli such as pathogen attack or exposure of the plants to certain chemicals. To examine the regulation of these genes, the 5' flanking regions of the PR-la gene and of two PR-1 pseudogenes were joined by a transcriptional fusion to the Escherichia coli beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene. These constructs were stably integrated into the tobacco genome and independent primary transformants were monitored for the expression of the reporter gene. Unexpectedly, out of 55 transformants analysed, four plants exhibited considerable GUS activities without any inductive treatment of the plants. Expression of the endogenous PR-1 genes, however, could not be detected in these plants. Primer extension analyses revealed correct initiation of the PR1/GUS hybrid transcripts from the PR-1a TATA box. When the plants were analysed at the cellular level, clear differences regarding the tissue specificity of expression of the reporter gene were observed. These results strongly suggest that the PR1/GUS hybrid promoter expression cassettes may be activated when integrated in the vicinity of heterologous enhancer elements dispersed in the tobacco genome. In order to support this hypothesis, domain B of the enhancer of the 35S RNA promoter from cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) was fused to various PR1/GUS hybrid genes upstream as well as downstream from the RNA start site. These constructs were stably introduced into the tobacco genome. In any primary transformant analysed, strong GUS activities were observed with the PR1/GUS hybrid RNAs originating from the normal transcription start site of the PR-1a gene. The tissue specificity of gene expression was identical to that described previously for the CaMV 35S domain B enhancer element. Thus, modulations of the transcriptional activity of the PR-1 promoter can be achieved by heterologous enhancers in transgenic plants and may be encountered upon random integration of PR-1 promoter constructs into the tobacco genome.
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- A Beilmann
- Botanisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, FRG
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Walter MH, Liu JW, Grand C, Lamb CJ, Hess D. Bean pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins deduced from elicitor-induced transcripts are members of a ubiquitous new class of conserved PR proteins including pollen allergens. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1990; 222:353-60. [PMID: 2274036 DOI: 10.1007/bf00633840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We have searched for induced transcripts in a cDNA library derived from bean cell supension cultures treated with an elicitor from Colletotrichum lindemuthianum. Six independently isolated cDNAs corresponding to rapidly induced small mRNAs have been classified by their DNA sequence and slightly different induction behaviour into two groups. 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions exhibit little similarity, but the deduced small acidic proteins designated PvPR1 and PvPR2 are 89% identical. No relationship was found with the well-characterized PR1 proteins from tobacco. However, the PvPR proteins are closely related to pI49 in pea (64% identity), pSTH2 in potato (41% identity) and PcPR1-1 in parsley (39% identity), which are also induced in response to elicitor or microbial attack. Moreover, a major pollen allergen in birch (BetvI) has a 44% identity with PvPR1 proteins. These similarities establish a ubiquitous class of conserved defense-related proteins and suggest a common yet still unknown function. Southern blot analysis indicates that PvPR protein gene organization is highly complex with an estimated copy number of more than 12 genes.
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- M H Walter
- Universität Hohenheim, Institut für Planzenphysiologie, Stuttgart Federal Republic of Germany
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