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In the first experiment, accessions Bur-0, Can-0 and Sf-2 showed enhanced levels of PR-1 gene induction by SA, whereas accessions Col-0, No-0 and Ws-2 expressed lower levels of PR-1 after treatment with SA (Fig.?3a). In an independent second experiment, similar results were obtained for all accessions except No-0, which showed constitutive PR-1 gene expression in the control group. The latter finding is likely caused by the occasional development of spontaneous lesions in No-0 under our greenhouse conditions (data not shown). Thus, despite the variable behaviour of accession No-0, these results demonstrate consistent and substantial natural variation in PR-1 gene responsiveness to exogenously applied SA. To examine whether the observed natural variation in SA responsiveness has an effect on basal disease resistance, we evaluated under similar growth conditions basal resistance against the hemi-biotrophic pathogen Pst DC3000, http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Bortezomib.html which is resisted by SA-dependent defence mechanisms (Ton et?al. 2002b; Glazebrook 2005). Plants were inoculated by dipping the rosettes into a bacterial suspension, and examined for disease symptoms and bacterial proliferation. Accessions Can-0, No-0, Bur-0 and Sf-2 developed significantly fewer disease symptoms (Fig.?3b), and allowed less bacterial growth in comparison to accession Col-0 (Fig.?3c). Conversely, accession Ws-2 allowed higher levels of bacterial http://www.selleck.cn/products/blu9931.html growth than Col-0 (Fig.?3b,c). To examine whether these differences are caused by pre-invasive early-acting defence barriers, we quantified bacterial proliferation http://www.selleckchem.com/products/gsk1120212-jtp-74057.html upon pressure infiltration of the leaves. This experiment yielded similar differences in bacterial proliferation between the accessions (Supporting Information Fig.?S2), suggesting that the genetic variation in basal resistance to Pst DC3000 is based on post-invasive defence mechanisms. Hence, primed SA responsiveness of accessions Can-0, Bur-0 and Sf-2 is associated with increased levels of basal resistance to Pst DC3000. Previously, we demonstrated that priming of SA-dependent defence upon treatment with the chemical priming agent BABA is marked by enhanced expression of 28 defence-regulatory TF genes (Van der Ent et?al. 2009). Because Can-0, Bur-0 and Sf-2 are primed to respond to SA in comparison to Col-0 (Fig.?3a), we used RT-qPCR to determine whether this phenotype is similarly marked by enhanced expression of TF genes. Out of the 28 TF genes tested, 21, 23 and 24 genes showed enhanced expression in Bur-0, Can-0 and Sf-2, respectively (P?