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Induction of a Sensitive Response to Helminthosporium maydis Race T Toxin in Resistant Mitochondria of Corn (Zea mays L.) by Removal of the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane ¹

^a Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 61801

Mitochondria isolated from Texas cytoplasmically male sterile (Tms) and normal (N) versions of corn (Zea mays L.) exhibit differential sensitivity to toxin(s) produced by Helminthosporium maydis race T, the causal organism of southern corn leaf blight. Malate dehydrogenase was inhibited by toxin(s) in intact Tms mitochondria but was unaffected in N mitochondria. Removal or rupture of the outer mitochondrial membrane resulted in retention of sensitivity of malate dehy-drogenase in Tms mitochondria to toxin(s), and induction of a sensitive response in normally toxin-insensitive N mitochondria. This suggests that a permeability difference in the respective outer membranes of N and Tms mitochondria may affect the passage of toxin(s) to a mitochondrial site of action. Mitochondrial bioassays indicate that more toxin was bound by Tms mitochondria than by N mitochondria; the greatest toxin binding was associated with the inner membrane of Tms mitochondria.

¹ This research was supported in part by funds from the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station. A preliminary report of these findings was presented at the American Society of Plant Physiology Meetings, Ithaca, N. Y., 1974.

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