Identification of symbiotically defective mutants of Lotus japonicus affected in infection thread growth.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact
; 19(12): 1444-50, 2006 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-17153928
ABSTRACT
During the symbiotic interaction between legumes and rhizobia, the host cell plasma membrane and associated plant cell wall invaginate to form a tunnel-like infection thread, a structure in which bacteria divide to reach the plant root cortex. We isolated four Lotus japonicus mutants that make infection pockets in root hairs but form very few infection threads after inoculation with Mesorhizobium loti. The few infection threads that did initiate in the mutants usually did not progress further than the root hair cell. These infection-thread deficient (itd) mutants were unaffected for early symbiotic responses such as calcium spiking, root hair deformation, and curling, as well as for the induction of cortical cell division and the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Complementation tests and genetic mapping indicate that itd2 is allelic to Ljsym7, whereas the itdl, itd3, and itd4 mutations identified novel loci. Bacterial release into host cells did occur occasionally in the itdl, itd2, and itd3 mutants suggesting that some infections may succeed after a long period and that infection of nodule cells could occur normally if the few abnormal infection threads that were formed reached the appropriate nodule cells.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Rhizobium
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Lotus
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Mol Plant Microbe Interact
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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BOTANICA
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MICROBIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido