Nature Communications (May 2022)

Agrobacterium expressing a type III secretion system delivers Pseudomonas effectors into plant cells to enhance transformation

  • Vidhyavathi Raman,
  • Clemencia M. Rojas,
  • Balaji Vasudevan,
  • Kevin Dunning,
  • Jaydeep Kolape,
  • Sunhee Oh,
  • Jianfei Yun,
  • Lishan Yang,
  • Guangming Li,
  • Bikram D. Pant,
  • Qingzhen Jiang,
  • Kirankumar S. Mysore

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30180-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Agrobacterium infection can cause defense responses in many plants, which leads to transformation recalcitrance. Here, the authors express type III secretion system in Agrobacterium to deliver effector proteins into plant cells to suppress host defense responses and thus enhance transformation in some plant species.