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With the aim of better understanding in vitro host-parasite interactions, tomato cell lines selected for altered response to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici cell wall components were further characterized. Particularly, their behaviour in dual culture in regard to both fungal inhibition and peroxidase activation was analysed and selected, and control cell clones were screened for esopolysaccharide content and toxin tolerance. Interclonal differences in growth response to 2,4-D and DMSO and the capacity to grow on a medium devoid of hormones (habituation) were taken as parameters representative of physiological variability not directly correlated with the response to pathogens. Significant differences between clones selected for increased (F+) and decreased (F−) response to fungal elicitors were found for pathogen inhibition, peroxidase and esopolysaccharide content, toxin tolerance being reduced in F but not significantly different from the control in F+. As expected, clonal variability for the response to 2,4-D and DMSO, although significant, was not connected with hostparasite interactions. The data reported thus show that selection for a character (response to elicitors), probably critical for the response to pathogens, may lead to the recovery of genotypes showing a set of modifications suggestive of a cascade of events leading to active defense.
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Storti, E., Bogani, P., Bettini, P. et al. The pleiotropic phenotype of tomato cells selected for altered response to Fusarium oxysporium f. sp. lycopersici cell wall components. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 78, 689–695 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00262565
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