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Mol Plant Pathol. 2006 Jul;7(4):279-84. doi: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2006.00339.x.

Expression of barley BAX Inhibitor-1 in carrots confers resistance to Botrytis cinerea.

Molecular plant pathology

Jafargholi Imani, Helmut Baltruschat, Elke Stein, Gengxiang Jia, Jörg Vogelsberg, Karl-Heinz Kogel, Ralph Hückelhoven

Affiliations

  1. Research Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Institute of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Heinrich-Buff Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.

PMID: 20507447 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2006.00339.x

Abstract

SUMMARY BAX Inhibitor-1 (BI-1) is a protein that controls heterologous BAX-induced cell death, the hypersensitive reaction and abiotic stress-induced cell death in plants. When over-expressed in epidermal cells of barley, barley BI-1 induces susceptibility to the biotrophic fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis. When we expressed barley BI-1 in carrot susceptible to the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea, we obtained BI-1-mediated resistance to fungus-induced leaf cell death and less fungal spreading on the leaves. Barley BI-1 also mediated resistance to Chalara elegans in carrot roots. The results support the idea that cell death inhibition is an applicable approach to control cell-death-inducing pathogens in crop plants.

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