Journal
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY
Volume 75, Issue 1-2, Pages 38-45Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmpp.2010.08.003
Keywords
Elicitor; carrageenans; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum; Oxalic acid; Virulence factor; Arabidopsis; Salicylic acid; Jasmonic acid; Induced resistance; Glucosinolate
Categories
Funding
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Acadian Seaplants Limited
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
- Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing
Ask authors/readers for more resources
We examined the effect of macroalgal polysaccharides iota- and lambda-carrageenan, which differ in sulfation, on Arabidopsis resistance to the necrotropic fungal pathogen Sclerotinia scleortiorum. Pretreatment of Arabidopsis with highly sulfated lambda-carrageenan induced resistance to S. sclerotiorum resulting in smaller leaf lesions; by contrast, the less sulfated iota-carrageenan enhanced susceptibility. lambda-carrageenan induced resistance correlated with increased expression of jasmonic acid related genes AOS, PDF1.2 and PR3. Further, lambda-carrageenan increased the oxalase oxidase activity in planta. The l-carrageenan induced resistance in the salicylic acid deficient mutant ics1, but did not rescue the susceptibility of jar1 plants suggesting that lambda-carrageenan induced resistance is independent of salicylic acid. The difference in the bioactivity of carrageenans is due, at least partly, to differences in the degree of sulfation. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available