HarpinXoo及其功能域片段启动病原物诱导性启动子在转基因拟南芥中的活性.pdf

Acta Botanica Sinica 植 物 学 报 462004,(9): 1083-1090 Harpin Xoo Plant Promoters inArabidopsis * (Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China) Abstract: - - or its truncated Xoo fragments DEG, DIR, and DPR (domains for enhancing plantg deleted in PPP2. PPP3 contains a bacteria- -1 confirmed based on their activation in transgenicArabidopsis plants byRalstonia solanacearum (Ralston) or SA. Harpin Xoo of Eli boxes in promoters. PPP1 was ca.- 3 affects levels of the promoter activation. Key words: harpin; pathogen-inducible plant promoter (PPP);cis- Xoo Arabidopsis Harpins produced by some plant pathogenic bacteria TTAGGTTTC) are inducible by biotic elicitors (Gough et can enhance plant growth and induce resistance to patho- al., 1995). Here we show that harpinXoo and the domains gens and insects by activating distinct signaling pathways activate pathogen-inducible plant promoters (PPPs) that (Dong et al., 1999; Galán and Collmer, 1999; Kim and Beer, contain the Eli boxes. 2000; Peng et al., 2003) in many plants. HarpinXoo was iden-