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Cloning of genes encoding nonhost hypersensitive response-inducing elicitors from Phytophthora boehmeriae

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We have devised a high-throughput functional cloning method to isolate cDNAs from Phytophthora boehmeriae of which the products elicit a hypersensitive response (HR) in tobacco. The cDNAs were cloned into a binary potato virus X (PVX)-based expression vector and transformed into Agrobacterium tumefeciens (Mog101). 4100 colonies were individually toothpick-inoculated onto leaflets of Nicotians benthamiana. 12 cDNAs were identified whose expression induced formation of a necrotic lesion around the inoculation site. 7 of these clones have different sequences. One of these clones PBC43 encodes specific elicitin. Clone PBC163 encodes a protein highly homologous to Rab; PBC241 encodes a prohibitin protein; PBN62 encodes a Heat Shock Protein 60 (HSP60). The other five cDNAs reveal no homology to known protein and are thus considered novel. These observations suggest that this functional screening method is a versatile strategy to identify cDNAs of pathogens that encode elicitors and other HR-inducing proteins.

phytophthora boehmeriaenon-host resistancehypersensitive responsePVX-based expression vectorelicitor

LI Jun、ZHANG HaiFeng、ZHANG ZhengGuang、WANG YuanChao、ZHENG XiaoBo

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Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

2007

Chinese science bulletin

Chinese science bulletin

ISSN:1001-6538
年,卷(期):2007.52(2)