Acidification by gluconic acid of mango fruit tissue during colonization via stem end infection by Phomopsis mangiferae

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 71-77

  Davidzon, Maayan ^a   Alkan, Noam ^a   Kobiler, Ilana ^a   Prusky, Dov ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Host acidification; Mango diseases; Stem end rots; Storage diseases

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; PHOMOPSIS; VITACEAE;

EID: 70350711982     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Alkan N., Fluhr R., Sherman A., and Prusky D. Role of ammonia secretion and pH modulation on pathogenicity of Colletotrichum coccodes on tomato fruit. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 21 (2008) 1058-1066
2. Alkan, N., Fluhr, R., Sagi, M., Davydov, O., Prusky, D., in press. Ammonia secreted by Colletotrichum coccodes affects host NADPH oxidase activity enhancing cell death and pathogenicity in tomato fruits. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact.
3. Anastassiadis S., Aivasidis A., and Wandrey C. Continuous gluconic acid production by isolated yeast-like mould strains of Aureobasidium pullulans. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 61 (2003) 110-117
4. Bateman D.F., and Beer S.V. Simultaneous production and synergistic action of oxalic acid and polygalacturonase during pathogenesis by Sclerotium rolfsii. Phytopathology 58 (1965) 204-211
5. Castoria R., Caputo L., De Curtis F., and De Cicco V. Resistance of postharvest biocontrol yeast to oxidative stress: a possible new mechanism of action. Phytopathology 93 (2003) 564-572
6. Cessna S., Sears V., Dickman M., and Low P. Oxalic acid, a pathogenicity factor of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, suppresses the host oxidative burst. Plant Cell 12 (2000) 2191-2199
7. Corpet F. Multiple sequence alignment with hierarchical clustering. Nucl. Acids Res. 16 (1988) 10881-10890
8. Dutton M.V., and Evans C.S. Oxalate production by fungi: its role in pathogenicity and ecology in the soil environment. Can. J. Microbiol. 42 (1996) 881-895
9. Eshel D., Miyara I., Ailinng T., Dinoor A., and Prusky D. pH regulates endoglucanase expression and virulence of Alternaria alternata in persimmon fruits. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 15 (2002) 774-779
10. Frederick K.R., Tung J., Emerick R.S., Masiarz F.R., Chamberlain S.H., Vasavada A., Rosenberg S., Chakraborty S., Schopter L.M., and Massey V. Glucose-oxidase from Aspergillus niger-cloning, gene sequence, secretion from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and kinetic-analysis of a yeast-derived enzyme. J. Biol. Chem. 265 (1990) 3793-3802
11. Govrin E., and Levine A. The hypersensitive response facilitates plant infection by the necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea. Curr. Biol. 10 (2000) 751-757
12. Hadas Y., Goldberg I., Pines O., and Prusky D. Involvement of gluconic acid and glucose oxidase in the pathogenicity of Penicillium expansum in apples. Phytopathology 97 (2007) 384-390
13. Hatzinikolaou D.G., Hansen O.C., Macris B.J., Tingey A., Kekos D., Goodenough P., and Stougaard P. A new glucose oxidase from Aspergillus niger: characterization and regulation studies of enzyme and gene. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 46 (1996) 371-381
14. Johnson G.I., and Sangchote S. Control of post-harvest diseases of tropical fruits: challenges for the 21st century. In: Champ B.R., Highley E., and Johnson G.I. (Eds). Post-Harvest Handling of Tropical Fruit (1994), Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra 140-161
15. Johnson G.I., Mead A.J., Cooke A.W., and Dean J.R. Mango stem end rot pathogens-fruit infection by endophytic colonization of the inflorescence and pedicel. Ann. Appl. Biol. 120 (1992) 225-234
16. Liao Z.H., Chen M., Guo L., Gong Y.F., Tang F., Sun X.F., and Tang K.X. Rapid isolation of high-quality total RNA from Taxus and Ginkgo. Prep. Biochem. Biotechnol. 34 (2004) 209-214
17. Lurie S., and Klein J.D. Heat treatment of apples: differential effects on physiology and biochemistry. Physiol. Plant. 78 (1990) 181-186
18. Magro P., Marciano P., and Di Lenna P. Oxalic acid production and its role in pathogenesis of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 24 (1984) 9-12
19. Marciano P., Di Lenna P., and Magro P. Oxalic acid, cell wall-degrading enzymes and pH in pathogenesis and their significance in the virulence of two Sclerotinia sclerotiorum isolates on sunflower. Physiol. Plant Pathol. 22 (1983) 339-345
20. Martell A.E., and Calvin M. The Chemistry of the Metal Chelate Compounds (1952), Prentice-Hall, New York p. 613
21. Maxwell D.P., and Lumsden R.D. Oxalic acid production by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in infected bean and in culture. Phytopathology 60 (1970) 1395-1398
22. McCallum J.L., Tsao R., and Zhou T. Factors affecting patulin production by Penicillium expansum. J. Food Prot. 65 (2002) 1937-1942
23. Miyara I., Shafran H., Kramer Haimovich H., Rollins J., Sherman A., and Prusky D. Multi-factor regulation of pectate lyase secretion by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides pathogenic on avocado fruits. Mol. Plant Pathol. 9 (2008) 281-291
24. Nelson N. A photometric adaptation of the Somogyi method for the determination of glucose. J. Biol. Chem. 153 (1944) 375-380
25. Prusky D., and Lichter A. Mechanisms modulating fungal attack in postharvest pathogens interactions and their control. In: David B., Collinge L., and Cooke B.M. (Eds). Sustainable Disease Management in a European Context (2008), Springer Science, Netherlands 281-290
26. Prusky D., and Yakoby N. Pathogenic fungi: leading or led by ambient pH?. Mol. Plant Pathol. 4 (2003) 509-516
27. Prusky D., Gold S., and Keen N.T. Purification and characterization of an endopolygalacturonase produced by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 35 (1989) 121-133
28. Prusky D., McEvoy J.L., Leverentz B., and Conway W.S. Local modulation of host pH by Colletotrichum species as a mechanism to increase virulence. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 14 (2001) 1105-1113
29. Prusky D., McEvoy J.L., Saftner R., Conway W.S., and Jones R. Relationship between host acidification and virulence of Penicillium spp. on apple and citrus fruit. Phytopathology 94 (2004) 44-51
30. Prusky D., Kobiler I., Miyara I., and Alkan N. Mango fruit diseases. In: Litz R. (Ed). The Mango: Botany, Production and Uses. 2nd ed. (2009), CAB International, Cambridge, MA, USA 210-230
31. Rollins J.A., and Dickman M.B. pH signaling in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: identification of pacC/RIM1 homolog. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67 (2001) 75-81
32. Saaiman W.C. Preliminary report on the time of infection of the soft brown rot pathogen Nattrassia mangiferae in mango. South African Mango Growers' Association Yearbook 16 (1996) 55-57
33. Sankpal N.V., and Kulkarni B.D. Optimization of fermentation conditions for gluconic acid production using Aspergillus niger immobilized on cellulose microfibrils. Process. Biochem. 37 (2002) 1343-1350
34. Sillanpaa M., Pirkanniemi K., and Dhondup P. The acute toxicity of gluconic acid, beta-alaninediacetic acid, diethylenetriaminepentakismethylene phosphonic acid, and nitrilotriacetic acid determined by Daphnia magna, Raphidocelis subcapitata, and Photobacterium phosphoreum. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 44 (2003) 332-335
35. Ten Have A., Mulder W., Visser J., and van Kan J.A.L. The endopolygalacturonase gene Bcpg1 is required for full virulence of Botrytis cinerea. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 11 (1998) 1009-1016
36. Verhoeff K., Leeman M., Vanpeer R., Posthuma L., Schot N., and Vaneijk G.W. Changes in pH and the production of organic acids during colonization of tomato petioles by Botrytis cinerea. J. Phytopathol. 122 (1988) 327-336
37. Zhang J.X., Bruton B.D., and Biles C.L. Polygalacturonase isozymes produced by Phomopsis cucurbitae in relation to postharvest decay of cantaloupe fruit. Phytopathology 87 (1997) 1020-1025