Molecular genetics of plant-microbe interactions : proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Associations, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 27-31, 1986

Section I: Genetics of Agrobacterium and Transformation.- Ecology of Agrobacterium: plasmids and biovars.- The Agrobacterium rhizogenes root-inducing system.- Effect of the presence of the plasmid pSA and of auxin on the attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to plant host cells.- Dual regulation of virulence genes of Agrobacterium plasmid pTiC58.- Overdrive, a T-DNA transmission enhancer on the A. tumefaciens tumor-inducing plasmid.- Physical structure and genetics of the T-DNA in plants transformed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens.- Mammalian metallothionein functions in plants.- Tumorigenesis and root nodulation by Agrobacterium tumefaciens carrying symplasmids.- Supplementary articles (see Section VI).- Section II: Genetics of Phytopathogenic Bacteria and Fungi.- Cutinase and pectinase in host-pathogen and plant-bacterial interaction.- Siderophore biosynthesis, uptake and effect on potato growth of rhizosphere strains.- A gene cluster in Xanthomonas campestris PV Campestris required for pathogenicity controls the excretion of enzymes.- Direct analysis of the invasiveness of Xanthomonas campestris mutants generated by Tn4431, a transposon containing a promoterless luciferase cassette for monitoring gene expression.- Analysis of the spontaneous mutation to avirulence by Pseudomonas solanacearum.- Characterization of pathogenicity genes of Erwinia carotovora.- Characterization of a novel esterase produced by plant pathogenic Streptomyces.- Supplementary articles (see Section VI).- Section III: Genetics of the = (Symbiosis/Pathogenicity).- Induced symbiosis mutants of Pisum sativum.- Plant host genetics of nodulation initiation in soybean.- A mutant of pea (Pisum sativum) possibly disturbed in the production of a compound required for the induction of nitrogenase activity in bacteroids.- Non-modulation mutants of soybean.- Early nodulins in root nodule development.- Peribacteroid membrane nodulins of soybean.- Isolation of nodule specific c-DNA clones from Medicago sativa.- Analysis of nodule-specific gene expression in ineffective alfalfa root nodules and callus cultures derived from ineffective root nodules.- Nodule specific genes in Phaseolus vulgaris.- Investigation of plant genes expressed during symbiotic nitrogen fixation.- Rhizobium induced plant proteins in target root epidermal cells of Vigna unguiculata.- Four soybean nodulin genes evolved from a common ancestor.- Coordinated expression of nodule-specific and root genes in yellow lupin.- Plant gene expression during effect and ineffective nodule development of the tropical stem-nodulated legume Sesbania rostrata.- Expression of two enzymes involved in ureide formation in soybean regulated by oxygen.- Probing cell wall structure in the soybean root nodule.- Monoclonal antibodies to components of Rhizobium-induced pea nodules.- Localization of the glutamine synthetase polypeptides in Phaseolus root nodules.- Changes in protein and mRNA accumulation in potato tubers treated with an elicitor.- Section IV: Genetics of Organization of the phaseoli genome.- Rifampin resistance and nodulating competitiveness in meliloti.- A method for isolating competition defective mutants in Rhizobium.- Genetic determinants of nodulation in pR1e 1001a: nodD.- Symbiotic mutants of meliloti which produce non-succinylated exopolysaccharide.- Rhizobium mutants defective in lipopolysaccharide and infection.- Analysis of three phaseoli genes, psi, psr and pss, which affect exopolysaccharide synthesis and symbiotic nitrogen fixation and/or nodulation.- Involvement of pSym nodulation genes in production of surface and extracellular components of trifolii which interact with white clover root hairs.- Rhizobium exopolysaccharides are essential for the formation of nitrogen fixing nodules in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.- Coinoculation with symbiotically defective mutants of meliloti.- Surface properties of meliloti associated with symbiosis.- Degradative enzymes in meliloti.- Identification of host specificity DNA regions determining the broad host range nodulation of strain NGR234.- Nif, Fix and Nod gene clusters in Bradyrhizobium japonicum, and nifA-mediated control of symbiotic nitrogen fixation.- Molecular genetics of nodulation of soybean by Bradyrhizobium japonicum.- Characterization of genes essential for symbiotic nitrogen fixation from Bradyrhizobium japonicum strain I110.- Nodulation genes of the stem nodulating Sesbania rostrata symbiont, strain ORS571.- Nod-linked host specific gene for soybean (Peking) nodulation in fredii USDA193.- Genomic organization of nodulation genes in phaseoli.- Common and host specific nodulation genes in meliloti and their conservation in other Rhizobia.- Host specific nodulation: effects of multiple nodD genes of meliloti.- Nodulation genes of leguminosarum.- Interactions between mililoti and trifolii nodulation genes: what is the basis for dominance by R. mililoti?.- Multiple host-specificity loci in the broad host-range NGR234.- Conserved nodulation genes are obligatory for non-legume nodulation.- Characterization of symbiotic genes and regulation of their expression in leguminosarum pre.- Regulation of the promoters in the nodulation region of the symbiosis plasmid pRL1J1 of leguminosarum.- Narigenin induces the nodABC promoter of leguminosarum as well as Tsr factor production.- An ntrC homologue in B. japonicum.- Glutamine synthetases of leguminosarum.- Molecular analysis of a Fix cluster from meliloti.- Regulation of the nitrogen fixation (Nif) genes in meliloti.- The unusual symbiosis between the nitrogen fixing bacterium ORS571 and its host Sesbania rostrata: regulation of nitrogen fixation and assimilation genes in the free living versus symbiotic state.- Analysis of sesbaniae ORS571 N2 fixation genes.- Identification, characterisation and sequence analysis of the leguminosarum nifA gene.- Analysis of hup DNA and Hup host range of leguminosarum BIO.- Bioluminescence in root nodules of soybean controlled by nitrogenase promoters.- In vivo cloning of genes from Bradyrhizobium japonicum.- Genes for the catabolism and synthesis of a nodule-specific, opine-like compound are closely linked and on the Sym plasmid of meliloti.- Molecular biology of genes involved in carbon metabolism in meliloti and Bradyrhizobium japonicum.- Azorhizobium sesbaniae ORS571 conducts synergistic N2 fixation and nicotinic acid oxidation.- At least three loci encode the leaf-curl phenotype in strain IC3342.- Section V: Genetics of the Other Diazotrophic Organisms.- Use of heterologous hybridization in phylogenetic studies of symbiotic Anabaena strains.- Chromobacterium lividum NCTC 10590 is a nitrogen-fixing Agrobacterium radiobacter.- Studies on the diazotrophic nature of Agrobacterium.- Developments in the genetic analysis of Azospirillum.- Section VI: Supplementary Articles for Sections I and II.- Role of Vir genes in the excision of T-DNA from the ti-plasmid.- Cloning vectors for Coryneform bacteria.- Cloning of Serratia liquefaciens chitinase gene(s).- Author Index.