Week of Aug. 28

PlP 692

Agrobacterium and Rhizobium

Assignments

Monday (review articles)

• Dafny-Yelin, M., Levy, A., and Tzfira, T. (2008) The ongoing saga of Agrobacterium¬ñhost interactions. Trends in Plant Science 13:102-105. [a short review of the hottest new stuff.]
• McCullen, C and Binns, A. (2006) Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Plant CellInteractions and Activities Required for Interkingdom Macromolecular Transfer. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 22: 101-127 [a long, comprehensive review - all the nitty gritty, and a nice future outlooks perspective on "the important unknowns." OK to skim many of the details but spend some time on the figures and the Summary and Future Issues sections.]

Wednesday
(review article)

• Geurts, R., Fedorova, E., and Bisseling, T. (2005) Nod factor signaling genes and their function in the early stages of Rhizobium infection. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 8, 346-352.

(paper for discussion)

• Djamei et al. (2007) Trojan Horse Strategy in Agrobacterium Transformation:Abusing MAPK Defense Signaling. Science 318: 453. Brian

Friday (papers for discussion)

• Peck, M.C., Fisher, R.F., and Long, S.R. (2006). Diverse flavonoids stimulate NodD1 binding to nod gene promoters in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Journal of bacteriology 188, 5417-5427. Peter
• (for a review on flavonoids, see also Winkel-Shirley, B. (2002). Biosynthesis of flavonoids and effects of stress. Current opinion in plant biology 5, 218-223.
• Smit, P., Limpens, E., Geurts, R., Fedorova, E., Dolgikh, E., Gough, C., and Bisseling, T. (2007). Medicago LYK3, an entry receptor in rhizobial nodulation factor signaling. Plant physiology 145, 183-191. Charles

Lecture slides and references

• Agro_Rhizo.pdf

Additional review articles

• Backert, S., and Meyer, T.F. (2006) Type IV secretion systems and their effectors in bacterial pathogenesis. Current Opinion in Microbiology 9, 207-217.
• Tzfira, T., and Citovsky, V. (2006) Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of plants: biology and biotechnology. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 17, 147-154.
• Limpens, E., and Bisseling, T. (2003) Signaling in symbiosis. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 6: 343-350.