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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 149, Issue 3, Pages 509-518Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2001.00063.x
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ABA; disease; elevated carbon dioxide (CO2); Phytophthora parasitica; PR proteins; root rot; SA; tomato
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. Changes are reported here in Phytophthora parasitica (root rot) infection of Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato) in response to elevated CO2 concentration. . Defense-related gene expression in tomato infected with Fl parasitica was measured in plants grown at ambient (350 ppm) and elevated (700 ppm) CO2. . Tomato plants showed a degree of tolerance against Fl parasitica at elevated [CO2] but there was no significant difference in pathogenesis-related (PR) or wound-response gene expression. In response to P. parasitica, PR mRNAs increased in infected roots of plants grown at elevated [CO2] while wound-reponse gene mRNAs were not induced. By contrast, increases in PR mRNAs and wound-responses transcripts in leaves correlated with increases in salicylic acid and abscisic acid, respectively The [CO2] had little effect on the timing or levels of both PR and wound-response mRNAs in infected plants. Tomato plants show a degree of tolerance against P. parasitica at elevated [CO2]. This tolerance might be due to the effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration on the transcription or post-translational turnover of PR proteins, or through increased photosynthesis and water use efficiency.
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