Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (Aug 1998)

Tartrate Utilization Genes Promote Growth of Agrobacterium spp. on Grapevine

  • J.-Y. Salomone,
  • E. Szegedi,
  • P. Cobanov,
  • L. Otten

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.8.836
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 8
pp. 836 – 838

Abstract

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Crown gall on grapevine is mainly caused by Agrobacterium vitis, which metabolizes tartrate. Competition experiments between a tartrate-utilizing strain and its non-utilizing derivative showed that tartrate utilization confers a selective advantage on grapevine.