Journal
PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE
Volume 105, Issue 2, Pages 243-251Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-010-9859-5
Keywords
Fusarium oxysporum; Endochitinase; Disease resistance; Transgenic tomato
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Various chitinases have been shown to inhibit the growth of fungal pathogens in in vitro as well as in planta conditions. chi194, a wheat chitinases gene encoding a 33-kDa chitinase protein, was overexpressed in tomato plants (cv. Pusa Ruby) under the control of maize ubiquitin 1 promoter. The integration of transgene in tomato plants was confirmed with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Southern blot analysis. The inheritance of the transgene in T-1 and T-2 generations were shown by molecular analysis and the hygromycin sensitivity test. The broad range of chitinase activity was observed among the transgenic lines in T-0 and a similar range was retained in the T-1 and T-2 generations. Most importantly, the transgenic tomato lines with high chitinase activity were found to be highly resistant to the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. Thus, the results demonstrated that the expression of the wheat endochitinase chi194 in tomato plants confers resistance against Fusarium wilt disease caused by the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici.
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