Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 383-395Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-21-4-0383
Keywords
chlorosis; jasmonic acid; phytohormone; senescence; Solanum lycopersicum
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- NCRR NIH HHS [1P20RR16478-02, 5P20RR15564-03] Funding Source: Medline
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Bacterial speck disease, which is caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, is an economically important disease on tomato. In the present study, we show that P syringae pv. tomato DC3000 is a pathogen of tomato seedlings, an aspect of pathogen biology that has not been previously investigated. This resulted in the development of a virulence assay on tomato seedlings that has several advantages over labor-intensive folliar assays, including a shorter growth and incubation period, ease of inoculation and handling, and rapid generation of larger sample sizes per experiment. The utility of this assay was investigated by exploring the virulence function of coronatine (COR) on tomato seedlings. Using the COR- mutant DB29 and a MAPMAN display of transcript data from TOM1 microarrays, COR-dependent expression of genes involved in secondary metabolism, polyamine biosynthesis, reactive oxygen species homeostasis, and the novel transcription factor SINAC2 were identified. Furthermore, during pathogenesis, genes involved in photosynthetic light reactions and the Calvin-Benson cycle were strongly repressed by COR. In conclusion, we show that P. syringae pv. tomato infects tomato seedlings and that COR is required for virulence in seedlings. The seedling assay can be used in high-throughput screens for the identification of molecular targets for COR and for the identification of genes involved in pathogenesis.
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