Methyl jasmonate primes defense responses against Botrytis cinerea and reduces disease development in harvested table grapes

2015 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 218-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lulu Jiang ◽  
Peng Jin ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Xuan Yu ◽  
Huanyu Wang ◽  
...  
Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Valenzuela-Riffo ◽  
Paz E. Zúñiga ◽  
Luis Morales-Quintana ◽  
Mauricio Lolas ◽  
Marcela Cáceres ◽  
...  

Several attempts have been made to study the effects of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) on plants in the past years. However, the comparative effects of the number and phenological time of MeJA applications on the activation of defense systems is currently unknown in strawberries. In the present research, we performed three field treatments during strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa ‘Camarosa’) fruit development and ripening which consisted of differential MeJA applications at flowering (M3), and the large green (M2 and M3) and red ripe (M1, M2, and M3) fruit stages. We also checked changes in gene expression related to plant defense against Botrytis cinerea inoculation post-harvest. In M3 treatment, we observed an upregulation of the anthocyanin and lignin contents and the defense-related genes, encoding for chitinases, β-1,3-glucanases and polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins, after harvest (0 hpi), along with the jasmonate signaling-related genes FaMYC2 and FaJAZ1 at 48 h after B. cinerea inoculation (48 hpi) during postharvest storage. Although we did not find differences in gray mold incidence between the MeJA treatments and control, these results suggest that preharvest MeJA treatment from the flowering stage onwards (M3) primes defense responses mediated by the upregulation of different defense-related genes and retains the upregulation of MYC2 and JAZ1 at 48 hpi.


2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-202
Author(s):  
Joaquín Guillermo Ramírez G. ◽  
Melissa Muñoz A. ◽  
Luis Fernando Patiño H. ◽  
Juan Gonzalo Morales O.

The plant disease Moko, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is the most important bacterial disease in banana and plantain crops worldwide. In the present study, chlorine dioxide and seven resistance inducers in banana plants (Musa sp.) infected with this bacterium were evaluated under greenhouse conditions. For the evaluation of chlorine dioxide, three doses were used (10, 30 and 50 mg L-1). The evaluation of the resistance inducers included the following: sodium salicylate 0.4 g L-1; hydrogen peroxide 1 mM; potassium phosphite 1.5 mL L-1; 3-aminobutanoic acid 1.0 g L-1; methyl jasmonate 0.2 g L-1; acibenzolar-s-methyl 0.3 mL L-1 and chitosan 3.0 mg mL-1. The results showed a significant reduction of 74% in the area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) value, which was calculated for the disease development when the injected chlorine dioxide dose was 50 mg L-1. The AUDPC value for the resistance inducers was reduced by 45.4% for chitosan, 75.5% for methyl jasmonate and 65.5% for 3-aminobutanoic acid. Therefore, the results indicated that these molecules have the potential to be used for control of the Moko disease.


2019 ◽  
Vol 254 ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Xu ◽  
Zheng Zhang ◽  
Xueping Li ◽  
Jia Wei ◽  
Bin Wu

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (24) ◽  
pp. 6725-6735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenqing Yu ◽  
Mengmeng Yu ◽  
Ruirui Zhao ◽  
Jiping Sheng ◽  
Yujing Li ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 797-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaofeng Qu ◽  
Xi Zhang ◽  
Yutong Song ◽  
Jinxing Lin ◽  
Xiaoyi Shan

2011 ◽  
Vol 158 (2) ◽  
pp. 1034-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savithri Nambeesan ◽  
Synan AbuQamar ◽  
Kristin Laluk ◽  
Autar K. Mattoo ◽  
Michael V. Mickelbart ◽  
...  

Plant Disease ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 83 (10) ◽  
pp. 917-924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Coertze ◽  
Gustav Holz

Infection of grapes by different densities of airborne conidia of Botrytis cinerea was investigated on table grapes (cultivar Dauphine) harvested ripe (16°Brix) and inoculated fresh, or after SO2 treatment and 8-week storage at -0.5°C. Berries were detached at each inoculation and dusted with dry conidia in a settling tower. Following inoculation, the fresh berries were incubated for 24 h at high relative humidity (≥93%), or were overlaid with wet sterile paper towels. Cold-stored berries were incubated at high relative humidity. The effect of conidial density on surface colonization, penetration, and lesion formation was determined by surface sterilization, isolation, and freezing studies on fresh berries. Only symptom expression was determined on cold-stored berries. Fluorescence microscopy of skin segments showed that conidia were consistently deposited as single cells, and not in pairs or groups, on berry surfaces. Individual conidia, at all densities tested, readily infected the cold-stored berries and formed separate lesions after 2 days. Although the cold-stored berries were highly susceptible, lesion numbers were not related to conidial density at low inoculum dosages (0.67 to 2.60 conidia per mm2 berry surface). Lesion numbers tended to increase exponentially at higher dosages (3.24 to 3.88 conidia per mm2 berry surface). Individual conidia, however, did not induce any disease symptoms on fresh berries. Removal of the pathogen after 24-h incubation from the surface of fresh berries by ethanol, and subsequent incubation of excised skin segments revealed that, irrespective of the conidial density or the wetness regime, less than 2% of skin segments were penetrated. Furthermore, increasing densities of conidia did not lead to higher rates of surface colonization and skin penetration. The low incidence of disease caused on fresh berries and high disease incidence induced after prolonged cold storage indicated that infection was not governed by conidial density on berry surfaces, but by the level of host resistance.


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