The expression of a symbiosis-regulated gene in eucalypt roots is regulated by auxins and hypaphorine, the tryptophan betaine of the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Pisolithus tinctorius.

Abstract:

:A full-length cDNA coding for a symbiosis-regulated transcript, EgHypar, was isolated by differential screening from a Eucalyptus globulus bicostata--Pisolithus tinctorius ectomycorrhiza. The sequence of this clone revealed a protein with an estimated molecular mass of 25.5 kDa that exhibited a high degree of homology (66%) with plant auxin-induced glutathione-S-transferases. Expression of the EgHypar gene in seedlings was confined largely in roots and it is drastically increased by ectomycorrhiza development. The concentration of EgHypar transcripts was similarly up-regulated in roots incubated in media supplemented with P. tinctorius cell-free extracts, indole-3-acetic acid, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid or hypaphorine (tryptophan betaine), the major indolic compound secreted by P. tinctorius. The latter fungal alkaloid concomitantly induced a decrease in root hair elongation in eucalypt seedlings. Up-regulation of EgHypar expression by auxins and fungal metabolites suggests that this symbiosis-regulated gene could be involved in the morphological changes taking place in plants roots upon symbiosis development. To our knowledge, these results provide the first molecular evidence that gene expression of the host plant is altered by molecules produced by the ectomycorrhizal mycobiont.

journal_name

Planta

journal_title

Planta

authors

Nehls U,Béguiristain T,Ditengou F,Lapeyrie F,Martin F

doi

10.1007/s004250050486

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-12-01 00:00:00

pages

296-302

issue

2

eissn

0032-0935

issn

1432-2048

pii

10.1007/s004250050486

journal_volume

207

pub_type

杂志文章

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