Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5592604 | Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology | 2017 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The defense gene activations that provide non-host disease resistance in plants are signaled by various elicitors. A number of the fungal-derived signal such as chitosan and DNase are uniquely able to promote transcription through direct effects on the DNA of pea chromatin at sites of defense gene transcription. Other biological signals are contained within the reactive oxygen species (ROS) and make substantial changes in DNA in other tissues. The current research probes the ROS elicitor concentrations and the conditions within pea endocarp nuclear material temporally associated with the activation of pathogenesis-related (PR) genes. Within 10Â min, ROS accumulate in response to a bean pathogen Fusarium solani f.sp. phaseoli (Fsph) to levels 4-fold those elicited by the pea pathogen Fusarium solani f.sp. pisi (Fspi). Application of Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) (HP) increases DNA fragmentation and activates the PR genes (DRR206, defensin, PR10, and PR1b) within 50Â min and changes the nuclear diameters of the pea host cells in 3Â h. Increased levels of the phytoalexin, pisatin and the growth suppression of the pea pathogen, Fspi, were observed within 24Â h after H2O2 treatment to the endocarp. Our results suggest that H2O2 contributes to the induction of the defense response in pea endocarp tissue, which is likely mediated by activation of DNA damage responses.
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Authors
Kiwamu Tanaka, Lee A. Hadwiger,