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MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 135-145Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1046/j.1364-3703.2001.00060.x
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Ethylene evolved during compatible or susceptible disease interactions may hasten and/or worsen disease symptom development; if so, the prevention of disease-response ethylene should reduce disease symptoms. We have examined the effects of reduced ethylene synthesis on Verticillium wilt (causal organism, Verticillium dahliae) of tomato by transforming tomato with ACC deaminase, which cleaves ACC, the immediate biosynthetic precursor of ethylene in plants. Three promoters were used to express ACC deaminase in the plant: (i) CaMV 35S (constitutive expression); (ii) ro/D (limits expression specifically to the site of Verticillium infection, i. e. the roots); and (iii) prb-1b (limits expression to certain environmental cues, e. g. disease infection). Significant reductions in the symptoms of Verticillium wilt were obtained for ro/D- and prb-1b-, but not for 35S-transformants. The pathogen was detected in stem sections of plants with reduced symptoms, suggesting that reduced ethylene synthesis results in increased disease tolerance. The effective control of formerly recalcitrant diseases such as Verticillium wilt may thus be obtained by preventing disease-related ethylene production via the tissue-specific expression of ACC deaminase.
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