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CYTOKININ TREATMENTS AMELIORATE SYMPTOMDEVELOPMENT DURING <strong>VERTICILLIUM</strong> INFECTION OFARABIDOPSISM. REUSCHE, V. LIPKA AND T. TEICHMANNAlbrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Abteilung Zellbiologie der Pflanze, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germanymreusch@gwdg.de; Volker.Lipka@biologie.uni-goettingen.de, tteichm@gwdg.deVerticillium longisporum is a soil-borne fungal pathogen which causes vasculardisease in oilseed rape and other members of the family Brassicaceae. The fungusenters via the plant root system, invades the xylem vessels and then systemicallycolonizes the hypocotyl and shoot xylem elements. At late stages of infectioncoinciding with leave senescence, the fungus starts to grow out of the vascular tissueand switches from biotrophy to a saprophytic lifestyle. We observed that cytokininmediatedinhibition of plant senescence compromises proliferation of the fungus. Weconclude that cytokinin level modulation may be necessary for fungal lifecyclecompletion.72

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