PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Burr, T. J. AU - Reid, C. L. TI - Biological Control of Grape Crown Gall with Non-tumorigenic <em>Agrobacterium vitis</em> Strain F2/5 AID - 10.5344/ajev.1994.45.2.213 DP - 1994 Jan 01 TA - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture PG - 213--219 VI - 45 IP - 2 4099 - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/45/2/213.short 4100 - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/45/2/213.full SO - Am J Enol Vitic.1994 Jan 01; 45 AB - A non-tumorigenic strain (F2/5) of Agrobacterium vitis produces an agrocin that inhibited in vitro growth of 21 of 25 A. vitis, two of 10 A. tumefaciens biovar 1, and none of nine biovar 2 strains. It inhibited both tumorigenic and non-tumorigenic strains. When applied to wounds on potted woody grape trunks ( Vitis vinifera L. cvs. Chardonnay and Riesling) in the greenhouse, the gall sizes were significantly reduced for seven of 10 A. vitis, one of two A. tumefaciens biovar 1 and one of one biovar 2 strains. The numbers of inoculation sites at which galls developed was reduced for all but one A. vitis strain. There is a good, but not perfect, correlation between in vitro sensitivity to the agrocin and control in vivo. Co-inoculation of F2/5 with pathogen was as effective or more effective in most cases than pre-inoculation of F2/5. When pathogen was inoculated prior to F2/5, the level of control was greatly reduced. Control was most effective when equal concentrations of F2/5 and pathogen were inoculated and declined for ratios of 1:10 and 1:100 (F2/5 to pathogen). F2/5 contains three plasmids, none of which hybridize with a probe, pTHE17, consisting of the T-DNA from A. tumefaciens strain C58.