- Author
-
G. Simons
J.P. Groenendijk
J. Wijbrandi
M. Reijans
J. Groenen
P.J. Diergaarde
T. van der Lee
M. Bleeker
J. Onstenk - Year
- 1998
- Title
- Dissection of the Fusarium I2 gene cluster in tomato reveals six homologs and one active gene copy
- Journal
- The Plant Cell
- Volume
- 10
- Pages (from-to)
- 1055-1068
- Number of pages
- 14
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
- Abstract
-
The I-2 locus in tomato confers resistance to race 2 of the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f sp lycopersici. The selective restriction fragment amplification (AFLP) positional cloning strategy was used to identify I-2 in the tomato genome. A yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clone covering ~750 kb encompassing the I-2 locus was isolated, and the AFLP technique was used to derive tightly linked AFLP markers from this YAC clone. Genetic complementation analysis in transgenic R1 plants using a set of overlapping cosmids covering the I-2 locus revealed three cosmids giving full resistance to F. o. lycopersici race 2. These cosmids shared a 7-kb DNA fragment containing an open reading frame encoding a protein with similarity to the nucleotide binding site leucine-rich repeat family of resistance genes. At the I-2 locus, we identified six additional homologs that included the recently identified I-2C-1 and I-2C-2 genes. However, cosmids containing the I-2C-1 or I-2C-2 gene could not confer resistance to plants, indicating that these members are not the functional resistance genes. Alignments between the various members of the I-2 gene family revealed two significant variable regions within the leucine-rich repeat region. They consisted of deletions or duplications of one or more leucine-rich repeats. We propose that one or both of these leucine-rich repeats are involved in Fusarium wilt resistance with I-2 specificity.
- Language
- Undefined/Unknown
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.427297
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