Tomatinase-induced genes

One of the isolates used by Quidde et al., was unable to metabolize tomatine and was more sensitive to the glycoalkaloid. In addition, this isolate was not able to induce disease symptoms on detached tomato leaves, but could pathogenize bean leaves, indicating that the ability to degrade tomatine may be required for pathogenicity of B. cinerea on tomato [36]. It would be very interesting to transformed this strain with one tomatinase gene to confirm this hypothesis. 

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