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. 1991 Apr;95(4):1019–1025. doi: 10.1104/pp.95.4.1019

Evidence for Cytokinin Involvement in Rhizobium (IC3342)-Induced Leaf Curl Syndrome of Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan Millsp.)

Narayana M Upadhyaya 1,1, C William Parker 1, David S Letham 1, Kieran F Scott 1,2, Peter J Dart 1,3
PMCID: PMC1077646  PMID: 16668086

Abstract

A uniquely abnormal shoot development (shoot tip-bending, leaf curling, release from apical dominance, and stunted growth) in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan Millsp) induced by a nodulating Rhizobium strain, IC3342, is thought to be due to a hormonal imbalance. Amaranthus betacyanin bioassay indicated that xylem exudate and leaf extracts from pigeonpea plants with Rhizobium-induced leaf curl symptoms contained high concentrations of cytokinin relative to those in normal plants. Radioimmunoassay (RIA) of samples purified with high performance liquid chromatography revealed that zeatin riboside (ZR) and dihydrozeatin riboside (DZR) concentrations in xylem sap from plants with leaf curl symptoms were 7 to 9 times higher than those in the sap from symptomless, nodulated plants. The sap from symptomless plants nodulated by a Curl− mutant had ZR and DZR concentrations comparable to those in the normal plant sap. RIA indicated that the respective concentrations of zeatin and N6-isopenteny-ladenine in culture filtrates of the curl-inducing strain IC3342 were 26 and 8 times higher than those in filtrates of a related normal nodulating strain (ANU240). Gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analyses revealed similar differences. Gene-specific hybridization and sequence comparisons failed to detect any homology of IC3342 DNA to Agrobacterium tumefaciens or Pseudomonas savastanoi genetic loci encoding enzymes involved in cytokinin biosynthesis.

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