bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/516617; this version posted January 10, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Natural variation for unusual host responses and flagellin-mediated immunity against Pseudomonas syringae in genetically diverse tomato accessions Robyn Roberts1, Samantha Mainiero1, Adrian F. Powell1, Alexander E. Liu1, Kai Shi1,2, Sarah R. Hind1, Susan R. Strickler1, Alan Collmer4, and Gregory B. Martin1,3,4* 1Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA 2Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. China 3Department of Horticultural Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Republic of Korea 4Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Present address: S. R. Hind, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA *Corresponding author: G. B. Martin, Tel. 607-254-1208; Email:
[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/516617; this version posted January 10, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Abstract The interaction between tomato and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) is a well-developed model for investigating the molecular basis of the plant immune system.