Specific plant signal molecules are known to induce syringomycin production and expression of syrB1, a syringomycin synthetase gene, in Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae. This report demonstrates that syringopeptin production likewise is activated by plant signal molecules and that the GacS, SalA, and SyrF regulatory pathway mediates transmission of plant signal molecules to the syr-syp biosynt...

and Implications Sensitivity of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure was evaluated for Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Shiga toxin gene (stx) detection in ground beef and ground pork at contamination levels of 0.14, 1.4, and 14 colony forming units per gram (CFU/g) of meat. The PCR procedure, developed during our previous research, amplifies three target genes simultaneously: uidA that is s...

Drought stress is the main limiting factor of soybean yield. Currently, genetic engineering has been one important tool in the development of drought-tolerant cultivars. A widely used strategy is the fusion of genes that confer tolerance under the control of the CaMV35S constitutive promoter; however, stress-responsive promoters would constitute the best alternative to the generation of drought...

An efficient and reproducible procedure for the transformation of white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) embryogenic tissues was developed using A. tumefaciens-mediated gene transfer. Rapidly dividing white spruce embryogenic tissues were co-cultivated with disarmed A. tumefaciens strains containing additional copies of the virulence regions from plasmid PToK47. The plasmid pBi121, containin...

In leaves of most C(4) plants, the biochemistry of photosynthesis is partitioned between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells. In addition, their cell biology and development also differs from that in C(3) plants. We have a poor understanding of the mechanisms that generate the cell-specific accumulation of proteins used in the C(4) pathway, and there are few genes that have been shown to be impor...

Transient expression profiles for several chimeric beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene constructs were determined in tissues (young leaves, mature leaves and roots) of creeping bentgrass (Agrostis palustris, cv. Penn A4) following microprojectile bombardment. The constructs analyzed consisted of the uidA (GUS) reporter gene driven by four different promoters (ubiquitin 3-potato, ubiquitin corn, ubiqu...

In French bean, the glycine-rich cell wall protein GRP 1.8 is specifically synthesized in the vascular tissue. To identify cis-acting sequences required for cell type-specific synthesis of GRP 1.8, expression patterns of fusion gene constructs were analyzed in transgenic tobacco. In these constructs, the uidA (8-glucuronidase) gene was placed under control of 5' upstream deletions as well as in...

Escherichia coli is a faecal indicator and certain virotypes are known as pathogens. Therefore, detection and prevention of E. coli in food is very important. The existing rapid methods concentrate on detecting the pathogenic E. coli instead of total E. coli population. Present study evaluates the use of two molecular markers (uidA and flanking region of uspA) specific for the E. coli in combin...

beta-Glucuronidase (uidA) reporter gene fusions were constructed for the hrpZ, hrpL, and hrpS genes from the phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola strain ES4326. These reporters, as well as an avrRpt2-uidA fusion, were used to measure transcriptional activity in ES4326 and a ES4326 rpoN mutant. rpoN was required for the expression of avrRpt2, hrpZ, and hrpL in vitro in minimal media...