Elevated O3 reduces the fitness of Bemisia tabaci via enhancement of the SA-dependent defense of the tomato plant
Elevated O3 reduces the fitness of Bemisia tabaci via enhancement of the SA-dependent defense of the tomato plant
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升高的 O3 通过增强番茄植株的 SA 依赖性防御来降低烟粉虱的适应性
DOI:
10.1007/s11829-012-9189-0
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发表时间:
2012-09-01
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
Ge, Feng
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作者:
Cui, Hongying;Sun, Yucheng;Ge, Feng
The effect of elevated O3 on tomato plants of three different genotypes (wild-type, a jasmonic acid (JA) defense-enhanced genotype (35S) and a JA-deficient genotype (spr2)) grown in association with the whitefly Bemisia tabaci Gennadius biotype B was examined in the field in open-top chambers. We experimentally tested the hypothesis that elevated O3 tends to reduce the nutrition of tomato plants, and to increase the SA-dependent pathway defenses and the secondary metabolites, and therefore decrease the population fitness of the whitefly. The results show that for all three tomato genotypes, elevated O3 reduced the soluble sugars and free amino acids, increased the phenylalanine ammonia-lyase enzyme activity and the accumulated salicylic acid (SA), and up-regulated the pathogenesis-related protein (PR1), which is commonly considered to be the whitefly-resistance gene product involved in SA-dependent defense. Elevated O3 did not affect the JA level in any of the three plant genotypes, but it increased the levels of some secondary metabolites, including total phenolics and condensed tannins. Elevated O3 prolonged the developmental time of whiteflies fed on the three plant genotypes, and it also reduced the fecundity and the intrinsic rate of increase of whiteflies fed on either the 35S or the wild-type plants. These results suggest that elevated O3 reduces the nutrition of tomato plants and enhances their SA content, relative PR mRNA expression and secondary metabolism, resulting in decreased fitness of whiteflies on these tomato plants.