RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Boucher, Christian A. A1 Barberis, Patrick A. A1 Trigalet, Andre PH. A1 Demery, Daniele A.YR 1985 T1 Transposon Mutagenesis of Pseudomonas solanacearum: Isolation of Tn5-Induced Avirulent Mutants JF Microbiology, VO 131 IS 09 SP 2449 OP 2457 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-131-9-2449 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1465-2080, AB Summary: Transposon mutagenesis in a tomato isolate of Pseudomonas solanacearum (strain Kourou) is reported, using Tn7 and Tn5 inserted in suicide conjugative plasmids. Whereas Tn7 integrates at high frequency in a particular site of the the genome, Tn5 appears to transpose much more randomly, allowing isolation of auxotrophic mutants with a frequency of 0.35%. The mutants showed a wide range of nutritional requirements. Following Tn5 mutagenesis, screening of 8250 clones on axenic tomato seedlings led to the isolation of 12 avirulent mutants. Southern blot analysis revealed that, for avirulent mutants, insertion of Tn5 occurred in at least 10 different EcoRI restriction fragments. Additional independent insertions of IS50 were also detected in four of these mutants. For each mutant, transformation experiments demonstrated that the Tn5-encoded kanamycin resistance and the avirulent phenotype are linked. Based on their ability or inability to induce a collapse of tobacco leaf parenchyma, and on the timing of reaction of the plant, avirulent mutants have been divided in to two and possibly three groups., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-131-9-2449