Environmental signals modulate the expression of an indole-3-acetic acid biosynthetic gene in Erwinia herbicola

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 499-505

  Brandl, Maria T ^a   Lindow, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

auxin; epiphyte; osmoregulated; Pantoea agglomerans; tryptophol; water stress

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0030957416     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.4.499     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Brandl, M., Clark, E. M., and Lindow, S. E. 1996. Characterization of the indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) pathway in an epiphytic strain of Erwinia herbiccla and IAA production in vitro Can. J. Microbiol. 42: 586-592.
2. Brandl, M. T., and Lindow, S. E. 1996. Cloning and characterization of a locus encoding an indolepyruvate decarboxylase involved in indole-3-acetic acid synthesis in Erwinia herbicola. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:4121-4128.
3. Cheung, A., and Fischetti, V. 1988. Variation in the expression of cell wall proteins of Staphylococcus aureus grown on solid and liquid media. Infect. Immun. 56:1061-1065.
4. Cirvilleri, G., and Lindow, S. E. 1994. Differential expression of genes of Pseudomonas syringae on leaves and in culture evaluated with random genomic lux fusions. Mol. Ecol. 3:249-257.
5. Csonka, L. N. 1991. Prokaryotic osmoregulation: Genetics and physiology. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 45:569-606.
6. Fry, S. C. 1989. Cellulases, hemicelluloses and auxin-stimulated growth: A possible relationship. Physiol. Plant. 75:532-536.
7. Goldberg, R. 1975. Cell wall polysaccharidase activities and growth processes: A possible relationship. Physiol. Plant. 50:261-264.
8. Harris, R. F. 1981. Effect of water potential on microbial growth and activity. Pages 23-95 in: Water potential relations in soil microbiology, vol. J. F. Parr, ed. ASA Spec. Pub. No. 9. Soil Soc. Am., Madison, WI.
9. s as a global regulator in the osmotic control of gene expression in Escherichia coli. Mol. Microbiol. 21:887-893.
10. Huynh, T. V., Dahlbeck, D., and Staskawicz, B. J. 1989. Bacterial blight of soybean: regulation of a pathogen gene determining host cultivar specificity. Science 245:1374-1376.
11. Lindgren, P. B., Frederick, R., Govindarajan, A. G., Panopoulos, N. J., Staskawicz, B. J., and Lindow, S. E. 1989. An ice nucleation reporter gene system: Identification of inducible pathogenicity genes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola. EMBO J. 8:1291-1301.
12. Lindow, S. E. 1987. Severity of pear fruit russeting associated with epiphytic indoleacetic acid-producing bacteria. Phytopathology 77:1724.
13. Lindow, S. E. 1990. Bacterial ice nucleation measurements. Pages 428-434 in: Methods in Phytobacteriology. D. C. Sands, Z. Klement, and K. Rudolf, eds. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest.
14. Lindow, S. E. 1995. The use of reporter genes in the study of microbial ecology. Mol. Ecol. 4:555-566.
15. Loper, J. E., and Lindow, S. E. 1994. A biological sensor for iron available to bacteria in their habitats on plant surfaces. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:1934-1941.
16. McCarter L., and Silverman, M. 1990. Surface-induced swarmer cell differentiation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Mol. Microbiol. 4:1057-1062.
17. Miller, J. H. 1972. Experiments in Molecular Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
18. Morgan, J. V., and Tukey, H. B., Jr. 1964. Characterization of leachate from plant foliage. Plant Physiol. 39:590-593.
19. Rahme, L. G., Mindrinos, M. N., and Panopoulos, N. J. 1992. Plant and environmental sensory signals control the expression of hrp genes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola. J. Bacteriol. 174:3499-3507.
20. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F., and Maniatis, T. A. 1989. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
21. Schulte, R., and Bonas, U. 1992. A Xanthomonas pathogenicity locus is induced by sucrose and sulfur-containing amino acids. Plant Cell 4: 79-86.
22. Weast, R. C. 1978. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 8th ed. CRC, West Palm Beach, FL.
23. Weibull, J., Ronquist, F., and Brishammar, S. 1990. Free amino acid composition of leaf exudates and phloem sap. Plant Physiol. 92:222-226
24. Wilson, M., and Lindow, S. E. 1993. Effect of phenotypic plasticity on epiphytic survival and colonization by Pseudomonas syringae. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 53:410-416.
25. -) biological control agent. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:3128-3137.
26. Wilson, M. and Lindow, S. E. 1994b Coexistence among epiphytic bacterial populations mediated through nutritional resource partitioning. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:4468-4477.
27. Yamada, T. 1993. The role of auxin in plant-disease development. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 31:253-273.