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Agrobacterium tumefaciens Chry5, a wild-type strain originally isolated from chrysanthemum, is unusually tumorigenic, particularly on soybean. We have mapped the Chry5 Ti plasmid by genomic walking and restriction endonuclease analysis, and have located its virulence, T-DNA, plasmid incompatibility, and l,l-succinamopine utilization loci. Southern analysis has revealed that about 85% of the Chry5 Ti plasmid is highly homologous to another Ti plasmid, pTiBo542. Although all the functions that we have located on pTiChry5 are encoded by pTiBo542-homologous regions, the two Ti plasmids differ in their genetic organization. The overall patterns of restriction sites in the plasmids also differ, with the exception of an approximately 12 kb segment of the virulence region, where the BamHI sites appear to be conserved. Complementation analysis has shown that deletion of a DNA segment which flanks the oncogenic T-DNA results in severe attenuation of virulence. This region also contains a sequence that is repeated in the Chry5 genome outside the Ti plasmid, and that is widely distributed in the Rhizobiaceae.
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Kovács, L.G., Pueppke, S.G. Mapping and genetic organization of pTiChry5, a novel Ti plasmid from a highly virulent Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain. Molec. Gen. Genet. 242, 327–336 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00280423
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