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J Bacteriol. 1988 June; 170(6): 2584-2591

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Isolation and characterization of pathogenicity genes of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci.

Y P Salch and P D Shaw

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61801.

ABSTRACT

Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci BR2 produces tabtoxin and causes wildfire disease on tobacco and bean plants. Approximately 2,700 Tn5 insertion mutants of a plasmid-free strain, PTBR 2.024, were generated by using suicide plasmid pGS9. Of these Tn5 mutants, 8 were no longer pathogenic on tobacco plants and 10 showed reduced symptoms. All of the eight nonpathogenic mutants caused typical wildfire disease symptoms on bean plants. Two of the nonpathogenic mutants failed to produce tabtoxin. The eight nonpathogenic mutants have Tn5 insertions into different EcoRI and SalI restriction fragments. The EcoRI fragments containing Tn5 from the eight nonpathogenic mutants were cloned into vector pTZ18R or pLAFR3. A genomic library of the parent strain was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR3. Three different cosmid clones that hybridized to the cloned Tn5-containing fragment from one of the nonpathogenic mutants, PTBR 4.000, were isolated from the genomic library. These clones contained six contiguous EcoRI fragments (a total of 57 kilobases [kb]). A 7.2-kb EcoRI fragment common to all three restored pathogenicity to mutant PTBR 4.000. None of the six EcoRI fragments hybridized to Tn5-containing fragments from the other seven mutants. The 7.2-kb fragment was conserved in P. syringae pv. tabaci and P. syringae pv. angulata, but not in other pathovars or strains. Because the mutants retained pathogenicity on bean plants and because of the conservation of the 7.2-kb EcoRI fragment only in pathovars of tobacco, we suggest that genes on the fragment might be related to host specificity.

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J Bacteriol. 1988 June; 170(6): 2584-2591

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