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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-9-2
pubmed:abstractText
It has been proposed that natural products synthesized by plants contribute to their resistance to pests and pathogens. We show here that transgenic tobacco plants with suppressed levels of the phenylpropanoid biosynthetic enzyme phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, EC 4.3.1.5) and correspondingly low levels of chlorogenic acid, the major soluble leaf phenylpropanoid product, exhibit more rapid and extensive lesion development than wild-type plants after infection by the virulent fungal pathogen Cercospora nicotianae. These observations provide direct evidence that phenylpropanoid products contribute to disease limitation. No induction of transcripts encoding phenylalanine ammonia-lyase or the lignin branch pathway enzyme caffeic acid O-methyltransferase was observed during the infection and there was no perturbation in the pattern of soluble phenylpropanoids. Hence, increased disease susceptibility does not involve inhibition of a pathogen-induced response but likely reflects inhibition of the developmental accumulation of chlorogenic acid. Demonstration of the contribution of such preformed protectants to plant health identifies attractive targets for manipulation by breeding or gene transfer to reduce the quantitative impact of disease.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7802-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Increased disease susceptibility of transgenic tobacco plants with suppressed levels of preformed phenylpropanoid products.
pubmed:affiliation
Plant Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't