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SUBMITTER: Hoshi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2669400 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hoshi Ayaka A Oshima Kenro K Kakizawa Shigeyuki S Ishii Yoshiko Y Ozeki Johji J Hashimoto Masayoshi M Komatsu Ken K Kagiwada Satoshi S Yamaji Yasuyuki Y Namba Shigetou S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090327 15
One of the most important themes in agricultural science is the identification of virulence factors involved in plant disease. Here, we show that a single virulence factor, tengu-su inducer (TENGU), induces witches' broom and dwarfism and is a small secreted protein of the plant-pathogenic bacterium, phytoplasma. When tengu was expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana plants, these plants showed symptoms of witches' broom and dwarfism, which are typical of phytoplasma infection. Transgenic Arabidopsis ...[more]