Disease resistance analyses of transgenic grapevines that contain endochitinase or antimicrobial peptide genes

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 689, Issue , 2005, Pages 493-498

  Kikkert, J R ^a   Vidal, J R ^a   Wallace, P G ^a   Reisch, B I ^a   Garcia Zitter, S ^a   Wilcox, W F ^a   Gadoury, D M ^a   Seem, R C ^a   Burr, T J ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium vitis; Botrytis cinerea; Chitinase genes; Genetic transformation; Magainin genes; Uncinula necator; Vitis vinifera

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052337864     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2005.689.60     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Alan, A.R. and Earle, E.D. 2002. Sensitivity of bacterial and fungal plant pathogens to the lytic peptides, MSI99, magainin II, and cecropin B. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 15:701-708.
2. Bolar, J.P., Norelli, J.L., Wong, K.-W., Hayes, C.K., Harman, G.E. and Aldwinckle, H.S. 2000. Expression of endochitinase from Trichoderma harzianum in transgenic apple increases resistance to apple scab and stunts growth. Phytopath. 90:72-77.
3. Boodley, J.W. and Sheldrake, R., Jr. 1982. Cornell peat lite mixes for commercial plant growing. Cornell Univ. Coop. Ext., Ithaca, NY USA Info. Bul. 43.
4. Chakrabarti, A., Ganapathi, T.R., Mukherjee, P.K. and Bapat, V.A. 2003. MSI-99, a magainin analogue, imparts enhanced disease resistance in transgenic tobacco and banana. Planta 216:587-596.
5. Colova-Tsolova, V., Perl, A., Krastanova, S., Tsvetkov, I. and Atanassov. 2001. Genetically engineered grape for disease and stress tolerance. p. 411-432. In: K. Roubelakis-Angelakis (ed) Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Grapevine. Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht.
6. DeGray, G., Rajasekaran, K., Smith, F., Sanford, J. and Daniell, H. 2001. Expression of an antimicrobial peptide via the chloroplast genome to control phytopathogenic bacteria and fungi. Plant Physiol. 127:852-862.
7. Gadoury, D.M., Seem, R.C., Ficke, A. and Wilcox, W.F. 2003. Ontogenic resistance to powdery mildew in grape berries. Phytopath. 93:547-555.
8. Gray, D.J., Jayasankar, S., Li, Z., Cordts, J., Scorza, R. and Srinivasan, C. 2002. Transgenic grapevines. p. 397-405. In: G.G. Khachatourians, et al. (eds) Transgenic Plants and Crops. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.
9. Hayes, C.K., Klemsdal, S., Lorito, M., DiPietro, A., Peterbauer, C., Nakas, J.P., Tronsmo, A. and Harman, G.E. 1994. Isolation and sequence of an endochitinase-encoding gene from a cDNA library of Trichoderma harzianum. Gene 138:143-148.
10. Kikkert, J.R., Ali, G.S., Wallace, P.G., Reisch, B.I. and Reustle, G.M. 2000. Expression of a fungal chitinase in Vitis vinifera L. 'Merlot' and 'Chardonnay' plants produced by biolistic transformation. Acta Hort. 528:297-303.
11. Kikkert, J.R., Thomas, M.R. and Reisch, B.I. 2001. Grapevine genetic engineering. p. 393-410. In: K.A. Roubelakis-Angelakis (ed.) Molecular Biology & Biotechnology of the Grapevine. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
12. Kristyanne, E.S., Kim, K.S. and Stewart, J. McD. 1997. Magainin 2 effects on the ultrastructure of five plant pathogens. Mycologia 89:353-360.
13. Li, Z.T. and Gray, D.J. 2003. Effect of five antimicrobial peptides on the growth of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Escherichia coli and Xylella fastidiosa. Vitis 42:95-97.
14. Li, Q., Lawrence, C.B., Xing, H.Y., Babbitt, R.A., Bass, W.T., Maiti, I.B. and Everett, N.P. 2001. Enhanced disease resistance conferred by expression of an antimicrobial magainin analog in transgenic tobacco. Planta 212:635-639.
15. Lorito, M., Harman, G.E., Hayes, C.K., Broadway, R.M., Tronsmo, A., Woo, S.L. and DiPietro, A. 1993. Chitinolytic enzymes produced by Trichoderma harzianum: Antifungal activity of purified endochitinase and chitobiosidase. Phytopath. 83:302-307.
16. Lorito, M., Woo, S.L., Garcia Fernandez, I., Colucci, G., Harman, G.E., Pinto-Toro, J.A., Filippone, E., Muccifora, S., Lawrence, C.B., Zoina, A., Tuzun, S. and F. Scala. 1998. Genes from mycoparasitic fungi as a source for improving plant resistance to fungal pathogens. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95:7860-7865.
17. Ludtke, S.J., He, K., Heller, W.T., Harroun, T.A., Yang, L. and Huang, H.W. 1996. Membrane pores induced by magainin. Biochem. 35:13723-13728.
18. Mourgues, F., Brisset, M.N. and Chevreau, E. 1998. Strategies to improve plant resistance to bacterial diseases through genetic engineering. Tren. Biotechnol. 16:203-210.
19. Otten, L., de Ruffray, R., Momol, E.A., Momol, M.T. and Burr, T.J. 1996. Phylogenetic relationships between Agrobacterium vitis isolates and their Ti plasmids. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 9:782-786.
20. Punja, Z.K. 2001. Genetic engineering of plants to enhance resistance to fungal pathogens. A review of progress and future prospects. Can. J. Plant Path. 23:216-235.
21. Reisch, B.I., Kikkert, J., Vidal, J., Ali, G.S., Gadoury, D., Seem, R. and Wallace, P. 2003. Genetic transformation of Vitis vinifera to improve disease resistance. Acta Hort. 603:303-308.
22. Smith, F., Blowers, A.D., Van Eck, J. and Sanford, J. 2001. Expression of magainin and PGL classes of antimicrobial peptide genes in plants and their use in creating resistance to multiple plant pathogens. US patent no. US 6,235,973 B1.
23. Vidal, J.R., Kikkert, J.R., Wallace, P.G. and Reisch, B.I. 2003. High-efficiency biolistic co-transformation and regeneration of 'Chardonnay' (Vitis vinifera L.) containing npt-II and antimicrobial peptide genes. Plant Cell Rep. 22:252-260.
24. Vivier, M.A. and Pretorius, I.S. 2000. Genetic improvement of grapevine: tailoring grape varieties for the third millennium - a review. S. Afr. J. Enol. Vitic. 21:5-26.
25. Zasloff, M. 1987. Magainins, a class of antimicrobial peptides from Xenopus skin: Isolation, characterization of two active forms, and partial cDNA sequence of a precursor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 84:5440-5453. Development Fund Fund