Maize host requirements for Ustilago maydis tumor induction.
Maize host requirements for Ustilago maydis tumor induction.
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玉米黑粉菌肿瘤诱导的玉米宿主要求。
DOI:
10.1007/s00497-009-0109-0
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发表时间:
2010
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Skibbe,DavidS
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Walbot,Virginia;Skibbe,DavidS
The biotrophic pathogenUstilago maydiscauses tumors by redirecting vegetative and floral development in maize (Zea maysL.). After fungal injection into immature tassels, tumors were found in all floral organs, with a progression of organ susceptibility that mirrors the sequential location of foci of cell division in developing spikelets. There is sharp demarcation between tumor-forming zones and areas with normal spikelet maturation and pollen shed; within and immediately adjacent to the tumor zone, developing anthers often emerge precociously and exhibit a range of developmental defects suggesting thatU.maydissignals and host responses are restricted spatially. Male-sterile maize mutants with defects in anther cell division patterns and cell fate acquisition prior to meiosis formed normal adult leaf tumors, but failed to form anther tumors. Methyl jasmonate and brassinosteroid phenocopied these early-acting anther developmental mutants by generating sterile zones within tassels that never formed tumors. Although auxin, cytokinin, abscisic acid and gibberellin did not impede tassel development, theDwarf8mutant defective in gibberellin signaling lacked tassel tumors; theanther ear1mutant reduced in gibberellin content formed normal tumors; andKnotted1, in which there is excessive growth of leaf tissue, formed much larger vegetative and tassel tumors. We propose the hypothesis that host growth potential and tissue identity modulate the ability ofU.maydisto redirect differentiation and induce tumors.