Journal
EUROPEAN FOOD RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 234, Issue 6, Pages 963-971Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00217-012-1715-x
Keywords
Elicitors; Fruit; Reactive oxygen species; Inducing resistance
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- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20096202110004]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30671465, 31160405]
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Benzo (1, 2, 3)-thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid S-methyl ester (BTH) is a novel synthetic elicitor capable of inducing disease resistance in many plants. Fruits were dipped in BTH at 100 mg/L for 10 min, and then stored at room temperature (22 +/- A 2 A degrees C, relative humidity 55-60 %). The results showed that BTH significantly ( < 0.05) reduced the lesion area of fruits inoculated with and the natural disease incidence of fruits during storage at room temperature. The treatment effectively maintained cell membrane integrity and decreased the production of lipid peroxidation and malondialdehyde. BTH treatment markedly enhanced the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide, (H2O2) while decreased the rate of superoxide anion (O (2) (center dot-) ) production. Furthermore, BTH observably increased the activities of NADPH oxidase (NOX, EC1.6.3.1), superoxide dismutase (SOD, EC1.15.1.1), peroxidase (POD, EC1.11.1.7), ascorbate peroxidase (APX, EC1.11.1.11), and glutathione reductase (GR, EC1.6.4.2), while inhibited the catalase (CAT, EC1.11.1.6) activity. These results indicated that BTH treatment increased the disease resistance of muskmelon fruits by enhancing their antioxidant system activity after harvest, and suggested that postharvest treatment with BTH could be promising in reducing decay and reducing or/and substituting chemical fungicides to control postharvest diseases in fruits.
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