Journal
PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/psb.22673
Keywords
ethylene; Fusarium mangiferae; gas liquid chromatography; mango malformation; mycelial mat and conidia
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- U.P. Council of Agricultural Research, Lucknow, India
- Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India
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Malformation is arguably the most crucial disease of mango (Mangifera indica L.) at present. It is receiving great attention not only because of its widespread and destructive nature but also because of its etiology and control is not absolutely understood. Recently, Fusarium mangiferae is found to be associated with mango malformation disease. There are indications that stress ethylene production could be involved in the disease. Here we have shown the first direct evidence of production of ethylene in pure culture of F. mangiferae obtained from mango. The study also revealed that all the isolates dissected from mango acquire morphological features of F. mangiferae showing most similarity to the features of species with accepted standard features. The isolates of F. mangiferae from mango were observed to produce ethylene in significant amounts, ranging from 9.28- 13.66 n mol/g dry wt/day. The findings presented here suggest that F. mangiferae could contribute to the malformation of mango by producing ethylene and probably stimulating stress ethylene production in malformed tissue of mango. Ethylene might be produced through 2-oxoglutarate- dependent oxygenase-type ethylene-forming- enzyme (EFE) pathway in Fusarium sp, which needs to be investigated.
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