Erwinia carotovora ssp.carotovora Infection Induced“Defense Lignin”Accumulation and Lignin Biosynthetic Gene Expression in Chinese Cabbage(Brassica rapa L.ssp.pekinensis) |
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作者姓名: | Song-He Zhang College of Life Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China Beijing AgroBiotechnology Research Center Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences Beijing China
Qing Yang College of Life Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
Rong-Cai Ma Beijing AgroBiotechnology Research Center Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences Beijing China |
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作者单位: | Song-He Zhang College of Life Sciences,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095,China Beijing AgroBiotechnology Research Center,Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences,Beijing 100097,China
Qing Yang College of Life Sciences,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095,China
Rong-Cai Ma Beijing AgroBiotechnology Research Center,Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences,Beijing 100097,China |
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基金项目: | Supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (5051002),the High-Tech Research and Development (863) Program of China (2006AA10Z123). |
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摘 要: | Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora (Ecc) infects and causes soft rot disease in hundreds of crop species includingvegetables, flowers and fruits. Lignin biosynthesis has been implicated in defensive reactions to injury and pathogeninfection in plants. In this work, variations of lignin content and gene expression in the molecular interaction betweenChinese cabbage and Ecc were investigated. H_2O_2 accumulation and peroxidase activity were detected by 3, 3-Dimethoxybenzidine staining at mocked and Ecc-inoculated sites of Chinese cabbage leafstalks. Mason lignin contentin inoculated plants increased by about 7.84%, 40.37%, and 43.13% more than that of the mocked site at 12, 24 and 72 hafter inoculation, respectively. Gas chromatography detected more p-coumaryl (H) and less coniferyl (G) and sinapyl (S)monolignins in leafstalks of Chinese cabbage. All three monomers increased in Ecc-infected leafstalks, and the Ecc-induced"defense lignin" were composed of more G and H monolignins, and less S monolignin. After searching the expressedsequence tags (EST) data of Chinese cabbage, 12 genes putatively encoding enzymes involved in lignin biosynthesis wereselected to study their expression. All of these genes could be induced by mock inoculation and Ecc infection, while thegene expression lasted for several more hours in the infected samples than in mocked and untreated plants. Our resultsindicated that "defense lignin" was different from the developmental lignin in composition; G and S monolignins weresignificantly induced in plants in response to the soft rot Ecc; thus, lignin biosynthesis was differentially regulated andplayed a role in plant response to the soft rot Ecc.
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Erwinia carotovora ssp.carotovora Infection Induced"Defense Lignin"Accumulation and Lignin Biosynthetic Gene Expression in Chinese Cabbage(Brassica rapa L.ssp.pekinensis) |
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Authors: | Song-He Zhang College of Life Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China Beijing AgroBiotechnology Research Center Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences Beijing China
Qing Yang College of Life Sciences Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China
Rong-Cai Ma Beijing AgroBiotechnology Research Center Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences Beijing China |
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Institution: | Song-He Zhang College of Life Sciences,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095,China Beijing AgroBiotechnology Research Center,Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences,Beijing 100097,China
Qing Yang College of Life Sciences,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095,China
Rong-Cai Ma Beijing AgroBiotechnology Research Center,Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences,Beijing 100097,China |
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Abstract: | Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora (Ecc) infects and causes soft rot disease in hundreds of crop species including vegetables, flowers and fruits. Lignin biosynthesis has been implicated in defensive reactions to injury and pathogen infection in plants. In this work, variations of lignin content and gene expression in the molecular interaction between Chinese cabbage and Ecc were investigated. H_2O_2 accumulation and peroxidase activity were detected by 3, 3- Dimethoxybenzidine staining at mocked and Ecc-inoculated sites of Chinese cabbage leafstalks. Mason lignin content in inoculated plants increased by about 7.84%, 40.37%, and 43.13% more than that of the mocked site at 12, 24 and 72 h after inoculation, respectively. Gas chromatography detected more p-coumaryl (H) and less coniferyl (G) and sinapyl (S) monolignins in leafstalks of Chinese cabbage. All three monomers increased in Ecc-infected leafstalks, and the Ecc-induced "defense lignin" were composed of more G and H monolignins, and less S monolignin. After searching the expressed sequence tags (EST) data of Chinese cabbage, 12 genes putatively encoding enzymes involved in lignin biosynthesis were selected to study their expression. All of these genes could be induced by mock inoculation and Ecc infection, while the gene expression lasted for several more hours in the infected samples than in mocked and untreated plants. Our results indicated that "defense lignin" was different from the developmental lignin in composition; G and S monolignins were significantly induced in plants in response to the soft rot Ecc; thus, lignin biosynthesis was differentially regulated and played a role in plant response to the soft rot Ecc. |
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Keywords: | Chinese cabbage Erwinia carotovora ssp carotovora expressed sequence tags gene expression lignin |
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