Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions

Biology of
Plant-Microbe
Interactions
Edited by
Gary Stacey, Beth Mullin,
and Peter M. Gresshoff
Proceedings of the 8th_lnternational Symposium
on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Knoxville, Tennessee, July 14-19, 1996
Published by the
International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Signal Transduction
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Olfaction in plants: Specific perception of common microbial
molecules
Thomas Boiler and Georg Felix
9
Signal recognition and transduction in bacterial speck disease
resistance of tomato
Gregory Martin, Xiaoyan Tang, Jianmin Zhou, Reid Frederick, Yulin
Jia, and Ying-Tsu Loh
15 *
A comparison of methods for the determination of the oxidative burst
in whole plants.
Ann T. Schroeder, Gregory Martin, and Philip S. Low
21
Signal perception and intracellular signal transduction in
plant pathogen defense
Wolfgang Wirtz, Dirk Nennstiel, Thorsten Jabs, Sabine
Zimmermann, Dierk Scheel, and Thorsten Nurnberger
27
Systemic acquired resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana
K. Summer-matter, Th. Birchler, L. Sticher, B. Mauch-Mani, M.
Schneider, and J.P.Metraux
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Studies of the salicyclic acid signal transduction pathway
Daniel F. Klessig, Jorg Durner, Zhixiang Chen, Marc Anderson,
Uwe Conrath, He Du, Ailan Guo, Yidong Liu, Jyoti Shah, Herman
Silva, Hideki Takahashi, and Yinong Yang
Plant Resistance
39
Genetic interactions between genes controlling cell death and
pathogen recognition in Arabidopsis
Jeffery L. Dangl, Robert A. Dietrich, J.-B. Morel, Douglas C. Boyes,
Thorsten Jabs, John M. McDowell, Murray R. Grant, Susanne
Kjemtrup, and Scott Kaufman
47
Arabidopsis thaliana enhanced disease susceptibility (eds) mutants.
Elizabeth E. Rogers, Jane Glazebrook, Sigrid Volko, and Frederick
M. Ausubel
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57
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Molecular, genetic and physiological analysis of Cladosporium
resistance gene function in
tomato
David A. Jones, Penny Brading, Mark Dixon, Kim HammondKosack, Kate Harrison, Kostas Hatzixanthis, Martin Parniske, Pedro
Piedras, Miguel Torres, Saijun Tang, Colwyn Thomas, and Jonathan
D.G.Jones
65
The N gene of tabacco confers resistance to tobacco mosaic virus in
transgenic tomato.
Barbara Baker, Steve Whitham, and Sheila McCormick
71
Genetic interactions specifying disease resistance in the bacterial
speck disease of tomato
Christian Tobias, John Salmeron, Giles Oldroyd, Caius Rommens,
Steven Scofield, and Brian Staskawicz
Receptors?
77
Signal perception and transduction in the activation of plant defense
by P-glucan elicitors.
Luis Antelo, Andrea Daxberger, Judith Fliegmann, Axel Mithofer,
Christel Schopfer, and Jiirgen Ebel
83
Perception of oligochitin (N-acetylchitooligosaccharide) elicitor
signal in rice.
Naoto Shibuya, Yuki Ito, and Hanae Kaku
89
NIP1, a bifunctional signal molecule from the barley pathogen,
Rhynchosporium secalis.
Marion Fiegen, Angela Gierlich, Hanno Hermann, Volkhart Li,
Matthias Rohe, and Wolfgang Knogge
93
The PGIP (polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein) family:
Extracellular proteins specialized for recognition
F. Cervone, G. De Lorenzo, B. Aracri, D. Bellincampi, C. Caprari,
A. Devoto, F. Leckie, B. Mattei, L. Nuss, and G. Salvi
99
Biochemical characterization of nod factor binding sites in Medicago
roots and cell suspension cultures.
J.-J. Bono, F. Gressent, A. Niebel, J.V. Cullimore, and R. Ranjeva
105
Do legume vegetative tissue lectins play roles in plant-microbial
interactions?
Marilynn E. Etzler and Judith B. Murphy
Agrobacterium
111
Agrobacterium: A natural genetic engineer exploited for plant
biotechnology
Eugene W. Nester, John Kemner, Wanyin Deng, Yong-Woog Lee,
Karla Fullner, Xiaoyou Liang, Shen Pan, and Joe Don Heath
121
Biogenesis of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-complex transport
apparatus
D. Fernandez, G.M. Spudich, T.A. Dang, X.-R. Zhou, S. Rashkova,
and P.J. Christie
127
Agrobacterium and plant genes affecting T-DNA transfer and
integration.
Soma Narasimhulu, Jaesung Nam, Xiao-bing Deng, and Stanton
Gelvin
133
The roles of the virulence proteins D2 and E2 in nuclear targeting,
protection and integration of T-DNA
Barbara Hohn, BrunoTinland, Ana Maria Bravo Angel, Fabrice
Schoumacher, Jesus Escudero, and Luca Rossi
139
Transfer and integration of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA in
the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.
Paul Bundock, Amke den Dulk-Ras, Alice Beijersbergen, Eddy
Risseeuw, and Paul J.J. Hooykaas
Bacterial Determinants for Pathogenicity and A virulence
145 r
Bacterial determinants of pathogenicity and avirulence-An overview
Noel T. Keen
153
Pseudomonas syringae hrp genes: Regulation and role in avirulence
phenotypes
Steven W. Hutcheson, Songmu Jin, Michael C. Lidell, and Zhisheng
Fu
159
Secreted proteins, secretion pathways, and the plant pathogenicity
ofErwinia chrysanthemi and Pseudomonas syringae
Alan Collmer, James R. Alfano, David W. Bauer, Gail M. Preston,
Amy O. Loniello, Alison Conlin, Jong Hyung Ham, Hsiou-Chen
Huang, Suresh Gopalan, and Sheng Yang He
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165
Genetic and molecular dissection of the hrp regulon of Ralstonia
(Pseudomonas) solanacearum
M. Marenda, F. Van Gijsegem, M. Arlat, C. Zischek, P. Barberis,
J.C. Camus, P. Castello, and C.A. Boucher
173
Homoserine lactone-mediated microbial signaling: a communication
system common to plant-associated bacteria.
Stephen K. Farrand, Kevin R. Piper, Rebecca Sackett, Gao Ping,
Paul D. Shaw, and Kun-Soo Kim
181
Molecular analysis of protein secretion systems involved in Erwinia
carotovora virulence.
J. Thomas, S. Wharam, L. Vincent-Sealey, S. Harris, Y.-L. Shih, and
G.P.C. Salmond
187
Regulation of hrpNEcc and genes for other exoproteins in soft-rotting
Erwinia carotovora by RsmA, a putative RNA-binding protein.
Asita Mukherjee, Yaya Cui and Arun K. Chatterjee
191
Genes and proteins involved in aggressiveness and avirulence of
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae to rice.
J.E. Leach, W. Zhu, J.M. Chittoor, G. Ponciano, S.A. Young, and
F.F. White
197
Role of nuclear localizing signal sequences in three disease
phenotypes determined by the Xanthomonas avr/pth gene family.
D.W. Gabriel, Q. Yuan, Y. Yang, and P.K. Chakrabarty
203
Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria hrp gene regulation and
avirulence gene avrBs3 recognition
U. Bonas, E. Huguet, L. Noel, M. Pierre, O. Rossier, K. Wengelnik,
and G. Van den Ackerveken
209
Some novel factors required for pathogenicity of Xanthomonas
campestris pv. campestris
C.E. Barber, T.J.G.Wilson, H. Slater, J.M. Dow, and M.J. Daniels
213
Coronatine, a plasmid-encoded virulence factor produced by
Pseudomonas syringae
C. Bender, D. Palmer, A. Penaloza-Vazquez, V. Rangaswamy, and
M. Ullrich
Genetics of Fungal Pathogenicity
219
Molecular genetic approaches to the study of fungal pathogenesis
revisited
Sally A. Leong
223
The molecular basis of compatibility: Lessons from the host-selective
toxin of Cochliobolus carbonum
Virginia Crane, Nasser Yalpani, and Steve Briggs
227
Review of evidence linking hypovirus-mediated disruption of cellular
G-protein signal transduction and attenuation of fungal virulence
Baoshan Chen, Shaojian Gao, Lynn M. Geletka, Shin Kasahara, Ping
Wang, and Donald L. Nuss
233
Saponins and plant disease
Jos P. Wubben, Rachel E. Melton, Michael J. Daniels, and Anne E.
Osbourn
239
Control of mating, filamentous growth and pathogenicity in Ustilago
maydis
Regine Kahmann, Tina Romeis, H. Andreas Hartmann, Heidi U.
Bohnert, Michael Bolker, and Jorg Kamper
245
Genomic organization of the T0X2 locus of Cochliobolus carbonum
Jonathan D.Walton, Joon-Hoon Ahn, John W. Pitkin, and Anastasia
N. Nikolskaya
253
Structure-function relation studies on AVR9 and AVR4 elicitors of
Cladosporiumfulvum
P.J.G.M. De Wit, M. Kooman-Gersmann, R. Vogelsang, M.H.A.J.
Joosten, J.P.M.J. Vossen, R.L. Weide, R. Lauge, G. Honee, and
J.J.M. Vervoort
Virology
259
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of coat protein and movement
protein mediated resistance against TMV
Roger N. Beachy, Hal S. Padgett, Ted Kahn, Mohammed
Bendahmane, John H. Fitchen, Manfred Heinlein, Yuichiro
Watanabe, and Bernard L. Epel
265
Role of plasmodesmata and host factors in control of viral infection
William J. Lucas
271
EHcitor functions of tobamovirus coat proteins in Nicotiana sylvestris
Zenobia Taraporewala and James N. Culver
277
Virus-host interactions in southern bean mosaic virus gene
expression and assembly
David L. Hacker and Kailayapilla Sivakumaran
281
Interactive roles of viral proteins.viral RNA, and host factors in
bromovirus RNA replication.
P. Ahlquist, J.Diez, M. Ishikawa, M. Janda, A. Noueiry, B.D. Price,
M. Restrepo-Hartwig, and M. Sullivan
287
Geminivirus replication
Linda Hanley-Bowdoin, Patricia A. Eagle, Beverly M. Orozco,
Dominique Robertson, and Sharon B. Settlage
293
Involvement of rice dwarf virus S6 in symptom severity and insect
transmission.
Ichiro Uyeda, Yuko Ando, Yoko Tanji, Hiroki Atarashi, and Ikuo
Kimura
Plant-Microbe Symbioses
299
The molecular basis of host specificity of rhizobia
H.P. Spaink, J. Bakkers, M. Bladergroen, G.V. Bloemberg, I.
Dandal, C.L. Diaz, L. Blok-Tip, A. Gisel, M. Harteveld, I.M. LopezLara, D. Kafetzopoulos, E. Kamst, J.W. Kijne, D. Meijer, B.J.J.
Lugtenberg, A.O. Ovtsyna, I. Potrykus, N.E.M. Quaedvlieg, C.
Quinto, T. Ritsema, C. Sautter, H.R.M. Schlaman, J.E. ThomasOates, J.H. van Boom, K. Van der Drift, G.A. van der Marel, S.Van
Leeuwen, A. Veldhuis, and A.H.M. Wijfjes
307
nod gene regulation in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
John Loh, Minviluz Garcia, Joyce Yuen and Gary Stacey
313
Signal peptidases of Bradyrhizobium japonicum as new symbiosisspecific proteins.
Peter Miiller, Andrea Bairl, Anja Klaucke, Christian Sens, and Till
Winzer
319
Rhizobium species NGR234 host-specificity of nodulation locus III
contains nod- andyir-genes
S. Jabbouri, M. Hanin, R. Fellay, D. Quesada-Vincens, B. Reuhs,
R.W. Carlson, X. Perret, C. Freiberg, A. Rosenthal, D. Leclerc, W.J.
Broughton, and B. Relid
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325
Exopolysaccharides and their role in nodule invasion
Gregory M. York, Juan E. Gonzalez, and Graham C. Walker
331
Acidic capsular polysaccharides (K antigens) of Rhizobium
Bradley L. Reuhs
337
Rhizobium etli lipopolysaccharide alterations triggered by host
exudate compounds.
K. Dale Noel, Dominik M. Duelli, and Valerie J. Neumann
343
Analysis of the secretion of symbiosis-related proteins by Rhizobium
leguminosarum biovar viciae
C. Finnie, G. Dean, J.M. Sutton, S. Gehlani, and J.A. Downie
349
Symbiotic suppression of the Medicago sativa defense system-The
key of Rhizobium meliloti to enter the host plant?
Karsten Niehaus, Ruth Baier, Anke Becker, and Alfred Punier
353
New tools for investigating nodule initiation and ontogeny: Spot
inoculation and microtargeting of transgenic white clover roots shows
auxin involvement and suggests a role for flavonoids
U. Mathesius, H.R.M. Schlaman, D. Meijer, B.J.J. Lugtenberg, H.P.
Spaink, J.J. Weinman, L.F. Roddam, C. Sautter, B.G. Rolfe, and
M.A. Djordjevic
359
Separation and characterization of Rhizobium and Trifolium proteins
using proteome analysis to study global changes in gene expression
M. Guerreiro, J.J. Weinman, S. Natera, A.C. Morris, J.W. Redmond,
M.A. Djordjevic, and B.G. Rolfe
363
Control of nodule organogenesis in Medicago
M. Crespi, C. Charon, C. Johansson, F. Frugier, T. Coba, P. Bauer,
A. Feher, A. Lodeiro, S. Poirier, S. Brown, P. Ratet, C. Staehelin,
T.H. Trinh, M. Schultze, E. Kondorosi, H.H. Felle, and A. Kondorosi
369
Gene discovery in early plant nodulation responses and systemic
regulation of nodulation
Peter M. Gresshoff, Gustavo Caetano-Anolle's, Roel P. Funke,
Farshid Ghassemi, Jaime Padilla, Gabrielle Criiger, Sanjeev Pillai,
Jiri Stiller, Ruju Chian, Anatoli Filatov, Raymond McDonnell, Sunil
Tuppale, Qunyi Jiang, Lisa Calfee-Richardson, and Debbie LandauEllis
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377
Plant genes controlling the fate of bacteria inside the root
LA. Tikhonovich, A.Y. Borisov, V.K. Lebsky, E.V. Morzhina, and
V.E. Tsyganov
381
Transposon tagging in Lotus japonicus using the maize elements Ac
and Ds
Eloisa Pajuelo, Leif Schauser, Thomas Thykjaer, Knud Larsen, and
Jens Stougaard
387
Nicotiana tabacum SRI contains two ENOD40 homologs.
Martha Matvienko, Karin van de Sande, Katharina Pawlowski, Ab
van Kammen, Henk Franssen, and Ton Bisseling
393
Calcium-dependent phosphorylation of the nodulin 26 channel by a
symbiosome membrane protein kinase
Daniel M. Roberts, C. David Weaver, and Jung Weon Lee
399
Sugar signals and legume lectins.
Clara L. Diaz, Herman P. Spaink, and Jan W. Kijne
403
Molecular communication in cyanobacterial-plant symbioses
B. Bergman, A. Matveyev, U. Rasmussen, and A.Viterbo-Fainzilber
409
Specific flavonoids stimulate intercellular colonization of nonlegumes by Azorhizobium caulinodans
Claire Gough, Gordon Webster, Jacques Vasse, Christine Galera,
Caroline Batchelor, Kenneth O'Callaghan, Michael Davey, Shanker
Kothari, Jean D£narie, and Edward Cocking
417
Actinorhizal nodules from different plant families
K. Pawlowski, A.Ribeiro, C. Guan, A. van Kammen, A.M. Berry,
and T. Bisseling
423
In vitro expression of actinorhizal nodulin AgNOD-GHRP and
demonstration of its toxicity to Escherichia coli
Svetlana V. Dobritsa and Beth C. Mullin
429
Emerging areas and future prospects in the field of plant-microbe
interactions
Andrzej B. Legocki
Biocontrol
433
Molecular basis of rhizosphere colonization by Pseudomonas
bacteria
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Ben Lugtenberg, Arjan van der Bij, Guido Bloemberg, Thomas Chin
A. Woeng, Linda Dekkers, Lev Kravchenko, Ine Mulders, Claartje
Phoelich, Marco Simons, Herman Spaink, Igor Tikhonovich, Letty de
Weger, and Carel Wijffelman
441
The biotechnology and application of Pseudomonas inoculants for
the biocontrol of phytopathogens
Colum Dunne, Isabel Delaney, Anne Fenton, Scott Lohrke, Yvan
Moenne-Loccoz, and Fergal O'Gara
449
Antifungal metabolites involved in biological control of soilborne
plant diseases by rhizosphere pseudomonads
Joyce E. Loper, Jennifer Kraus, Nathan Corbell, and Brian NowakThompson
457
Biocontrol: Genetic modifications for enhanced antifungal activity.
James M. Ligon, Stephen T. Lam, Thomas D. Gaffney, D. Steven
Hill, Phillip E. Hammer, and Nancy Torkewitz
463
Phenazine antibiotic biosynthesis in the biological control bacterium
Pseudomonas aureofaciens 30-84 is regulated at multiple levels
L.S. Pierson III, D.W. Wood, and S.T. Chancey
469
2,4-DiacetylphlorogIucinol, a key antibiotic in soilborne pathogen
suppression by fluorescent Pseudomonas spp
L.S. Thomashow, M.G. Bangera, R.F. Bonsall, D.-S. Kim, J.
Raaijmakers, and D.M.Weller
475
Zwittermicin A and biological control of oomycete pathogens.
Elizabeth A. Stohl, Eric V. Stabb, and Jo Handelsman
Diversity and Ecology of Plant-Associated Microbes
481
Plant regulation of bacterial root colonization
D.A. Phillips, W.R. Streit, H. Volpin, J.D. Palumbo, CM. Joseph,
E.S. Sande, F.J. de Bruijn, and C.I. Kado
487
Molecular genetic approaches to assessing bacterial habitat
composition, modification, and interactions on leaves
Steven E. Lindow
493
Exploring the microbial diversity and soil management practices to
optimize the contribution of soil microorganisms to plant^nutrition
Mariangella Hungria and Milton A.T. Vargas
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497
Rep-PCR genomic fingerprinting of plant-associated bacteria and
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computer-assisted phylogenetic analyses
F.J. de Bruijn, J. Rademaker, M. Schneider, U. Rossbach, and F.J.
Louws
503
Comments on Rhizobium systematics: Lessons from R. tropici and R.
etli
E. Martinez-Romero
Emerging Areas of Research
509
Root border cells
Martha C. Hawes, L.A. Brigham, H.-H. Woo, Y. Zhu, and F. Wen
515
Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae: Molecular approaches to
investigate phosphate nutrition in the symbiosis
Maria J. Harrison, Stephen H. Burleigh, Henry Liu, and Marianne
L. van Buuren
521
Root-knot nematode induced TobRBl expression and antisense
transgenic resistance strategies
Charles H. Opperman and Mark A. Conkling
527
Use of phytoremediation strategies to bioremediate contaminated
soils and water
Michael J. Sadowsky and Daniel R. Smith
533
The possible links between RNA-directed DNA methylation
(RdDM), sense and antisense RNA, gene silencing, symptominduction upon microbial infections and RNA-directed
DNA polymerase (RDRP)
H.L. Sanger, W. Schiebel, L. Riedel, T. Pelissier, and M.
Wassenegger
541
Evolution of Epichloe species symbioses with grasses.
Christopher L. Schardl, Huei-Fung Tsai, Kuang-Ren Chung, Adrian
Leuchtmann, and Malcolm R. Siegel
International Symposium on Molecular Plant-Microbe
Interactions: Meeting Summary
547
Meeting Summary
R. James Cook
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International Symposium on Molecular Plant-Microbe
Interactions: Satellite Meeting
557
Emerging model legume systems: Tools and recent advances.
Kathryn VandenBosch, Douglas Cook, Frans de Bruijn, and Thierry
Huguet
International Symposium on Molecular Plant-Microbe
Interactions: Original Music
564
One more control
J. Kijne
Lonesome ligand
K. VandenBosch and J. Kijne
Tears on a labcoat
J. Kijne
Coomassie blues
C. Rosenberg, K. VandenBosch, and J. Kijne
573
Subject index
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A u t h o r index
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