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THE PLANT CELL, Vol 8, Issue 3 477-487, Copyright © 1996 by American Society of Plant Biologists
Oligogalacturonides Prevent Rhizogenesis in rolB-Transformed Tobacco Explants by Inhibiting Auxin-Induced Expression of the rolB Gene
D. Bellincampi, M. Cardarelli, D. Zaghi, G. Serino, G. Salvi, C. Gatz, F. Cervone, M. M. Altamura, P. Costantino and G. D. Lorenzo
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Oligogalacturonides elicit several defense responses and regulate different
aspects of growth and development in plants. Many of the
development-related effects of oligogalacturonides appear to be amenable to
an auxin antagonist activity of these oligosaccharins. To clarify the role
of oligogalacturonides in antagonizing auxin, we analyzed their effect on
root formation in leaf explants of tobacco harboring the plant oncogene
rolB. We show here that oligogalacturonides are capable of inhibiting root
morphogenesis driven by rolB in transgenic leaf explants when this process
requires exogenous auxin. Because rolB expression is induced by auxin and
dramatically alters the response to this hormone in transformed plant
cells, the inhibiting effect of oligogalacturonides could be exerted on the
induction of rolB and/or at some other auxin-requiring step(s) in
rhizogenesis. We show that oligogalacturonides antagonize auxin primarily
because they strongly inhibit auxin-regulated transcriptional activation of
a rolB-[beta]-glucuronidase gene fusion in both leaf explants and cultured
leaf protoplasts. In contrast, oligogalacturonides do not inhibit
rhizogenesis when rolB transcriptional activation is made independent of
auxin, as shown by the lack of inhibition of root formation in leaf
explants containing rolB driven by a tetracycline-inducible promoter.
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