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Class I isoforms of beta-1,3-glucanases (betaGLU I) and chitinases (CHN I) are antifungal, vacuolar proteins implicated in plant defense. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) betaGLU I and CHN I usually exhibit tightly coordinated developmental, hormonal, and pathogenesis-related regulation. Both enzymes are induced in cultured cells and tissues of cultivar Havana 425 tobacco by ethylene and are down-regulated by combinations of the growth hormones auxin and cytokinin. We report a novel pattern of betaGLU I and CHN I regulation in cultivar Havana 425 tobacco pith-cell suspensions and cultured leaf explants. Abscisic acid (ABA) at a concentration of 10 micron markedly inhibited the induction of betaGLU I but not of CHN I. RNA-blot hybridization and immunoblot analysis showed that only class I isoforms of betaGLU and CHN are induced in cell culture and that ABA inhibits steady-state betaGLU I mRNA accumulation. Comparable inhibition of beta-glucuronidase expression by ABA was observed for cells transformed with a tobacco betaGLU I gene promoter/beta-glucuronidase reporter gene fusion. Taken together, the results strongly suggest that ABA down-regulates transcription of betaGLU I genes. This raises the possibility that some of the ABA effects on plant-defense responses might involve betaGLU I.

Transcriptional Down-Regulation by Abscisic Acid of Pathogenesis-Related β-1,3-Glucanase Genes in Tobacco Cell Cultures1