Effects of silicon treatment and inoculation with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum on cellular defences in root tissues of two cotton cultivars

Annals of Botany

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 219-226

  Whan, Jennifer A ^a   Dann, Elizabeth K ^a   Aitken, Elizabeth A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

defence; Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum; Gossypium hirsutum; lignin; pathogen; phenolic compounds; Silicon; transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COTTON; CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUNGUS; INOCULATION; LIGNIN; PATHOGEN; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; PLANT DEFENSE; POTASSIUM; SILICATE; SILICON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AUSTRALIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. VASINFECTUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

LIGNIN; SILICON;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECTS; FUSARIUM; GOSSYPIUM; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUSARIUM; GOSSYPIUM; LIGNIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; SILICON;

EID: 84982151935     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw095     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Barber MS, Ride JP. 1988. A quantitative assay for induced lignification in wounded wheat leaves and its use to survey potential elicitors of the response. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 32: 158-197.
2. Beckman CH. 2000. Phenolic-storing cells: keys to programmed cell death and periderm formation in wilt disease resistance and in general defence responses in plants? Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 57: 101-110.
3. Beckman CH, Morgham AT, MuellerWC. 1991. Enlargement and vacuolization of the cytoplasm in contact cells of resistant and susceptible tomato plants following inoculation with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp lycopersici, race 1. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 38: 433-442.
4. Bélanger RR, Benhamou N, Menzies JG. 2003. Cytological evidence of an active role of silicon in wheat resistance to powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f sp tritici). Phytopathology 93: 402-412.
5. Bunt AC. 1988. Media and mixes for container-grown plants. Boston: Unwin Hyman.
6. Cai K, Gao D, Luo S, Zeng R, Yang J, Zhu X. 2008. Physiological and cytological mechanisms of silicon-induced resistance in rice against blast disease. Physiologia Plantarum 134: 234-333.
7. ChérifM, Benhamou N, Bélanger RR. 1991. Ultrastructural and cytochemical studies of fungal development and host reactions in cucumber plants infected by Pythium ultimum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 39: 353-375.
8. Curvelo CRD, Rodrigues FA. Silva LD, Nascimento KJT, Berger PG. 2013. Biochemical aspects of cotton resistance to ramularia leaf spot mediated by silicon. Bragantia 72: 41-51
9. Daayf F, Nicole M, Boher B, Pando A, Geiger JP. 1997. Early vascular defense reactions of cotton roots infected with a defoliating mutant strain of Verticillium dahliae. European Journal of Plant Pathology 103: 125-136.
10. Dann E, Muir S. 2002. Peas grown with elevated plant-available silicon levels have higher activities of chitinase and b-1, 3-glucanase, are less susceptible to a fungal leaf spot pathogen and accumulate more foliar silicon. Australasian Plant Pathology 31: 9-13.
11. Epstein, E. 1999. Silicon. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 50: 641-664.
12. Fawe A, Abou-ZaidM, Menzies JG, Bélanger RR. 1998. Silicon mediated accumulation of flavonoid phytoalexins in cucumber. Phytopathology 88: 396-400.
13. Fortunato AA, Rodrigues FA, NascimentoKJT. 2012a. Physiological and biochemical aspects of the resistance of banana plants to Fusarium wilt potentiated by silicon. Phytopathology 102: 957-966.
14. Fortunato AA, Rodrigues FA, Parpaiola Baroni JC, Barbosa Soares GC, Dita Rodriguez MA, Pereira, OL. 2012b. Silicon suppresses Fusarium wilt development in banana plants. Journal of Phytopathology 160: 674-679.
15. Fortunato AA, Silva LD, Rodrigues FA. 2014. Phenylpropanoid pathway is potentiated by silicon in the roots of banana plants during the infection process of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp cubense. Phytopathology 104: 597-603.
16. Gao X, Bjork L, Trajkovski V, UgglaM. 2000. Evaluation of antioxidant activities of rosehip ethanol extracts in different test systems. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 80: 2021-2027.
17. Guerra AMND, Rodrigues FA, Berger PG, Barros AF, Rodrigues YC, Lima TC. 2013. Cotton resistance to tropical rust mediated by silicon. Bragantia 72: 279-291
18. Hall C, Heath R, Guest D. 2011. Rapid and intense accumulation of terpenoid phytoalexins in infected xylemtissues of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) resistant to Fusarium oxysporum f sp vasinfectum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 76: 182-188.
19. Hodson MJ, White PJ, Mead A, Broadley MR 2005. Phylogenetic variation in the silicon composition of plants. Annals of Botany 96: 1027-1046.
20. Inanaga S, Okasanka A, Tanaka S. 1995. Does silicon exist in association with organic compounds in rice plant? Japanese Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 41: 111-117.
21. Jones KW, and Cribb B, Aitken EAB. 2011. Does addition of the element silicon affect the infection process of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense on banana? In: Stirling GR, ed. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Soilborne Diseases Symposium, Twin Waters, Queensland, Australia, 9-11 August 2010.
22. Keen NT, Littlefield LJ. 1979. The possible association of phytoalexins with resistance gene expression in flax to Melampsora lini. Physiological Plant Pathology 14: 265-280.
23. Ma JF, Yamaji N. 2008. Functions and transport of silicon in plants. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 65: 3049-3057.
24. Mueller WC, Beckman CH. 1991. Ultrastructural responses of vessel contact cells in cotton plants resistant or susceptible to infection by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 38: 211-222.
25. Muir S. 2001. Plant-available silicon (Si) as a protectant against fungal diseases in soil-less potting media. Final Report. Campbelltown: Horticultural Research and Development Corporation.
26. Nicholson RL, Hammerschmidt R. 1992. Phenolic compounds and their role in disease resistance. Annual Review of Phytopathology 92: 369-389.
27. Oliveira JC, Albuquerque GMR, Mariano RLR, Gondim DMF, Oliveira JTA, Souza EB. 2012. Reduction of the severity of angular leaf spot of cotton mediated by silicon. Journal of Plant Pathology 94: 297-304.
28. Rodrigues FA, Jurick WM II, Datnoff LE, Jones JB, Rollins JA. 2005. Silicon influences cytological and molecular events in compatible and incompatible rice-Magnaporthe grisea interactions. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 66: 144-159.
29. Samuels AL, Glass ADM, Menzies JG, Ehret DL. 1994. Silicon in cell walls and papillae of Cucumis sativus during infection by Sphaerotheca fuliginea. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 44: 237-242.
30. Shi J, Mueller WC, Beckman CH. 1991. Ultrastructure and histochemistry of lipoidal droplets in vessel contact cells and adjacent parenchyma cells in cotton plants infected by Fusarium oxysporum f sp vasinfectum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 39: 201-211.
31. Shi J, MuellerWC, Beckman CH. 1992. Vessel occlusion and secretory activities of vessel contact cells in resistant or susceptible cotton plants infected with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 40: 133-147.
32. Vermerris W, Nicholson RA. 2006. Phenolic compound biochemistry. Dordrecht: Springer.
33. Wendt KD, Jensen CA, Tindall R and KatzMl. 2004. Comparison of conventional and microwave-assisted processing of mouse retinas for transmission electron microscopy. Journal of Microscopy 214: 80-88.
34. Whan JA. 2010. Silicon and acibenzolar-S-methyl induced defence responses in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) infected with Fusarium oxysporum f sp Vasinfectum. PhD thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia.