D. Prusky, Ilana Kobiler, Benjamin Jacoby, J.J. Sims, S.L. Midland
{"title":"Inhibitors of avocado lipoxygenase: their possible relationship with the latency of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides","authors":"D. Prusky, Ilana Kobiler, Benjamin Jacoby, J.J. Sims, S.L. Midland","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90040-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90040-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Linoleate oxidation by avocado lipoxygenase was inhibited <em>in vitro</em> in the presence of the specific inhibitor 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic acid (ETYA). Infiltration with ETYA of avocado discs inoculated with <em>Colletotrichum gloeosporioides</em> delayed symptom development at concentrations where the fungus itself was not affected. Subsequently, a natural inhibitor of avocado lipoxygenase was isolated from peels of unripe avocado fruits and identified as epicatechin. It inhibited avocado lipoxygenase with a K<sub>i</sub> of 0·64 μm. The concentration of epicatechin in unripe fruits was 514 μg g<sup>−</sup> fresh weight of peel; this decreased during ripening to 8 μg g<sup>−1</sup> fresh weight, before symptoms of <em>C. gloeosporioides</em> infections were expressed. A comparison of two cultivars with differing susceptibility to <em>C. gloeosporioides</em> showed that the concentration of epicatechin decreased faster in the cultivar in which symptoms appeared first. An atmosphere containing 50 μg l<sup>−</sup> ethylene enhanced the decrease of the lipoyxygenase inhibitor in avocado fruits and shortened the period before symptoms of disease were expressed. In over-mature, firm and naturally infected fruits hanging in the orchard the concentration of epicatechin was 260 μg g<sup>−</sup> in the area of the peel without symptoms and only 27 μg g<sup>−</sup> in that showing symptoms of infection.</p><p>The results are discussed in relation to the hypothesis that the latency of the infection of avocado fruit by <em>C. gloeosporioides</em> may be accounted for by the degradation of the preformed antifungal compound, <em>cis,cis</em>-1-acetoxy-2-hydroxy-4-oxo-heneicosa-12, 15-diene, which is catalysed by avocado lipoxygenase, and that the in vivo lipoxygenase activity may increase during ripening owing to the decline in the levels of its endogenous inhibitor epicatechin.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 3","pages":"Pages 269-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90040-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78598962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In vitro sporulation of race 32 of Puccinia graminis Pers. f.sp. tritici Erikss. & Henn","authors":"K.H. Kuck , H.J. Reisener","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90039-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90039-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Race 32 of <em>Puccinia graminis</em> f.sp. <em>tritici</em> sporulated <em>in vitro</em> on a chemically defined medium whose amino acid and carbohydrate composition corresponded to that of the susceptible wheat cultivar Little Club. Sporulation was affected by pH, heat-treatment of the medium and the spore-density of the inoculum. Good mycelia( growth was promoted at high inoculum density, low volume of culture medium, and when no heat treatment, or only limited heat treatment, was given during sterilization of the medium. When these conditions were reversed and at pH 5·2, sporulating colonies occurred. Under optimal conditions the first urediospore bearing colonies could be detected 10 days after inoculation of the medium. Several hundred fertile colonies could be detected up to day 20. Typical teliospores were usually found for the first time at day 30. Differentiation of infection structures had a negative effect on sporulation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 3","pages":"Pages 259-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90039-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77656710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water relations and growth of rust-infected groundsel (Puccinia lagenophorae Cooke; Senecio vulgaris L.) during and after exposure to freezing soil temperatures","authors":"N.D. Paul, P.G. Ayres","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90066-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90066-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Groundsel (<em>Senecio vulgaris</em> L.) was grown at three soil temperatures (ambient, and −2 and 6 °C) in an unheated glasshouse during winter in order to examine how a combination of unavailability of soil water due to freezing and of infection by rust (<em>Puccinia lagenophorae</em> Cooke) would affect water relations and growth. Measurements were continued after plants were transferred to a controlled environment room (10 ° C, 12 h light per day) for recovery.</p><p>Low soil temperatures for 2 or 6 weeks reduced leaf water potential (<em>ψ</em><sub>1</sub>) and, over the shorter period, rust exacerbated this reduction. Turgor potential (<em>ψ</em><sub>p</sub>) also fell during soil freezing, more so in rusted than control plants, but both regained turgor rapidly when freezing ended. However, rust prevented a return to pre-freezing <em>ψ</em><sub>1</sub> during the recovery period. Rust reduced the gain in total dry weight (about 70% of which was leaf dry weight) in plants held at ambient soil temperatures and increased the loss of dry weight of plants held at low soil temperatures; loss of root tissue may have contributed to the inability of rusted plants to regain normal <em>ψ</em><sub>1</sub> during recovery. In both healthy and rusted plants, specific leaf area (area per unit weight) tended to decrease during low temperature treatment and to increase during recovery. Rust inhibited the increase in leaf area during the recovery period, probably because it lowered <em>ψ</em><sub>1</sub> and, consequently, increases in dry weight were inhibited by rust, particularly in plants previously held at −2 °C.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"Pages 185-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90066-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79840012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenji Takahashi , James R. Aist, Herbert W. Israel
{"title":"Distribution of hydrolytic enzymes at barley powdery mildew encounter sites: implications for resistance associated with papilla formation in a compatible system","authors":"Kenji Takahashi , James R. Aist, Herbert W. Israel","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90065-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90065-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Distributions of the hydrolytic enzymes acid phosphatase and non-specific esterase in compatible barley coleoptiles inoculated with <em>Erysiphe graminis</em> fsp. <em>hordei</em> were investigated histochemically by light and electron microscopy. The four different enzymes investigated-acid β-glycerophos-phatase, acid naphthol AS-TR phosphatase, indoxyl acetate esterase and naphthol AS-D acetate esterase—had similar localization patterns. Reaction products were distributed generally in the fungal and host cells, but distinct accumulations were found in certain regions and structures at the encounter sites, including appressoria, penetration pegs, haustoria, papillae, and host cytoplasm. Most papillae showed conspicuous amounts of reaction products, suggesting that papilla formation includes depositions from secretory vesicles derived from the lysosomal system in host cells. There was a marked difference in the apparent concentration of hydrolytic enzyme activity between normal-size papillae accompanied by haustoria (sites of successful penetration) and oversize papillae (sites of unsuccessful penetration). Hydrolytic enzymes, localized most intensively in a lAyer of the oversize papillae, may confer resistance to fungal ingress by degrading components of the penetration pegs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"Pages 167-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90065-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82782663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partial purification and characterization of elicitors for 6-methoxymellein production in cultured carrot cells","authors":"Fumiya Kurosaki, Yutaka Tsurusawa, Arasuke Nishi","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90068-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90068-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>6-Methoxymellein production by cultured carrot cells was elicited by the addition of partial hydrolysates of the pectic substances of carrot cells obtained with pectinase or trypsin. The crude elicitor preparations were fractionated by anion exchange and gel filtration chromatography and resolved into several fractions. The elicitors, which had been purified from the pectinase hydrolysate, were almost completely destroyed by a subsequent treatment with pectinase. However, treatment with Pronase E did not have a significant effect on the activity of the same elicitor preparations indicating that the essential constituent of these elicitors is oligouronide. On the other hand, pectic fragments of carrot cells obtained by tryptic digestion contained at least two distinct types of elicitor active component. One of them lost activity after treatment with Pronase E after it was resistant to pectinase. In contrast, the activity of the other elicitor was reduced by pectinase treatment. It is likely that elicitor for phytoalexin production in carrot is not a single molecular species but rather heterogenous pectic fragments containing an essential moiety such as oligouronide or peptide.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"Pages 209-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90068-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80973865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of age of tomato and maize leaves on resistance to a non-specific and a host specific toxin","authors":"B. Barna, A.R.T. Sarhan, Z. Kiŕaly","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90064-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90064-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fusaric acid treatments induced a greater proportion of the total ion content to leak out from mature tomato leaf tissues than from young leaf tissues. Delaying senescence by treating the plants with kinetin reduced the effects of the toxin on leaf tissue as measured by chlorophyll degradation.</p><p>T-toxin treatments of maize leaves also induced greater percentage leakage from older leaves than from young leaves.</p><p>The higher chlorophyll contents of tomato plants grown with high nitrate nitrogen levels compared to plants grown with low nitrate levels indicated greater juvenility in the former tissues than in the latter. The ratio of phospholipids to free sterols increased with increasing levels of nitrogen fertilization, indicating possible changes in membrane composition. These results indicate that young tissues or tissues in which the juvenile state is prolonged by growing the plants with high levels of nitrate nitrogen or by kinetin treatments have greater non-specific resistance to toxins than mature of senescing tissues.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"Pages 159-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90064-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88627487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phytochemical methods—a guide to modern techniques of plant analysis","authors":"R. Price","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90073-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90073-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"Pages 255-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90073-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77729879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of cross-reactive antigens of Acrocylindrium oryzae and rice in relation to sheath rot disease","authors":"R.P. Purkayastha, A. Ghosal","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90071-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90071-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Immunodiffusion, immunoelectrophoretic and crossed immunoelectrophoretic analyses of rice antigens in relation to sheath rot disease revealed a serological relationship between susceptible rice cultivars and isolates of the causal organism of sheath rot, <em>Acrocylindrium oryzae</em>. One precipitin band was observed when the antigen preparation of <em>A. oryzae</em> was cross-reacted with its own antiserum or against the antisera of four susceptible rice cultivars. No precipitin band was detected between the antiserum of the resistant cv. Mahsuri and antigen preparations from three isolates of <em>A. oryzae</em> or between the antigens of the resistant cultivars Mahsuri and Rupsail and the antiserum of <em>A. oryzae</em>. Crossed-immunoelectrophoretic tests confirmed that there was a common antigen between Mahsuri and Jaya, and between Mahsuri and CR-126-42-1. The precipitin band between the antigen preparation of Jaya and <em>A. oryzae</em> was found to be similar.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"Pages 245-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90071-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77833035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in cell structure in roots of resistant potatoes parasitized by potato cyst-nematodes. I. Potatoes with resistance gene H1 derived from Solanum tuberosum ssp. andigena","authors":"Susan L. Rice , B.S.C. Leadbeater , A.R. Stone","doi":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90069-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0048-4059(85)90069-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Histological changes in roots of potato plants with the gene <em>H</em><sub>1</sub>, which confers resistance to the potato cyst-nematode <em>Globedera rostochiensis</em> pathotype Ro 1, are described for periods of 24 h to 10 days after invasion by second-stage juveniles of <em>G. rostochiensis</em>. The changes are compared with those which occur in roots of a susceptible cultivar. Experiments were carried out on potato roots growing from sprouting tuber pieces on water agar. Root cells surrounding the invading nematode undergo a hypersensitive-like response and become necrotic. Cell walls of inner cortical and stelar cells adjacent to the stylet of the invading nematode break down to form a syncytial complex but cells surrounding the syncytium become necrotic, presumably limiting movement of nutrients from plant to nematode. Ultrastructural changes of cells in the cortex and the stele are illustrated and discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101028,"journal":{"name":"Physiological Plant Pathology","volume":"27 2","pages":"Pages 219-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0048-4059(85)90069-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82844901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}