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Expression of a magainin-type antimicrobial peptide gene (MSI-99) in tomato enhances resistance to bacterial speck disease
Authors:A?R?Alan  A?Blowers  Email author" target="_blank">E?D?EarleEmail author
Institution:(1) Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;(2) Ball Helix, 622 Town Road, West Chicago, IL 60185-2698, USA
Abstract:MSI-99 is a synthetic analog of magainin II (MII), a small cationic peptide highly inhibitory to a wide spectrum of microbial organisms. Tomato plants were transformed to express a gene encoding the MSI-99 peptide and tested for possible enhancement of resistance to important pathogens of this crop. Thirty-six tomato transformants carrying an MSI-99 expression vector designed to target the peptide into extracellular spaces were obtained by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation. Expression of MSI-99 caused no obvious cytotoxic effects in these plants. In the tests with Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (bacterial speck pathogen) at 105 CFU/ml, several MSI-99-expressing lines developed significantly fewer disease symptoms than controls. However, MSI-99-expressing lines were not significantly different from controls in their responses to the fungal pathogen Alternaria solani (early blight) and the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans (late blight). These findings are in accordance with our previous in vitro inhibition tests, which showed that the MSI-99 peptide is more inhibitory against bacteria than against fungi and oomycetes. Additional in vitro inhibition assays showed that MSI-99 loses its antimicrobial activity in the total or extracellular fluids from leaflets of non-transformed tomato plants; however, P. syringae pv. tomato could not multiply in the extracellular fluid from an MSI-99-expressing line. Our results suggest that expression strategies providing continuous high expression of MSI-99 will be necessary to achieve significant enhancement of plant disease resistance.Abbreviations AMP Antimicrobial peptide - CFU Colony forming unit - ECF Extracellular fluid - gus beta-glucuronidase gene - nptII Neomycin phosphotransferase II - SP Signal peptide - TF Total fluidCommunicated by S. Gleddie
Keywords:Disease resistance  Cationic peptides  Extracellular targeting  Lycopersicon esculentum
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