Article
The cloned avirulence gene avrPto induces disease resistance in tomato cultivars containing the Pto resistance gene.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 1992
Ronald P C, Salmeron J M, Carland F M, Staskawicz B J
Abstract excerpt
Resistance of tomato plants to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato race 0 is controlled by the locus Pto. A bacterial avirulence gene was cloned by constructing a cosmid library from an avirulent P. syringae pv. tomato race, conjugating the recombinants into a strain of P. syringae pv. maculicola virulent on a tomato cultivar containing Pto, and screening for those clones that converted the...
Topics
- Cell Division
- Cloning, Molecular
- Crosses, Genetic
- Genetic Variation
- Host-Parasite Interactions
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Plant Diseases
- Plants, Edible
- Pseudomonas
- Virulence
