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Microbe-Plant Interactions

Hormone-Resistant Mutants of Arabidopsis Have an Attenuated Response to Agrobacterium Strains ¹

Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405

We have examined the response of the hormone-resistant mutants axr1 and axr2 of Arabidopsis thaliana to inoculation by Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Our results indicate that recessive mutations in the axr1 gene affect the frequency of tumor formation after inoculation with either Agrobacterium strain. In addition, tumors produced on axr1 plants were smaller than those growing on wild-type plants. These results indicate that the product of the AXR1 gene is important for both crown gall and hairy root tumor formation. In contrast, the dominant axr2 mutation has a more severe effect on the development of crown gall tumors than on hairy root tumors. Crown gall tumors produced on axr2 plants had a different morphology than wild-type tumors and did not grow when they were removed from the explant. In contrast, a large number of hairy root tumors were produced on wild-type and axr2 plants, and both types of tumors grew when they were removed from the explant. Like the roots of axr2 plants, roots produced on axr2 explants lacked root hairs.

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