Ethylene Evolution by Rice Plants Infected with Pyricularia oryzae Cav. in Relation to the Stunting of Diseased Plants
Year: 1977
Type: article
Abstract: The rice plants treated with pulp-masses containing ethrel at more than 30ppm by spotting on leaves showed symptoms quite similar to the stunting of blast diseased plants, i.e., shortened new leaf blades and sheaths that emerged after infection, hastened leaf emergence period and epinasty of infected leaves. The ethylene evolution in susceptible cultivar inoculated with the blast fungus occurred immediately after infection and increased considerably toward eleventh day reaching the maximum level of 2.7nl/g/h, but decreased rapidly thereafter. Stunting of the plants was also induced as early as the latent period, becoming more conspicuous with disease development. In resistant cultivar the temporal evolution could be detected only two days after inoculation, resulting in no stunting. The leaves bearing acute type lesions with waterly greenish grey color produced much more ethylene than those with chronic type lesions with grey center and brown margin. There was no significant difference in the amounts of ethylene during the first 14 days that required for 1% inhibition of plant growth between the infected and the ethrel-treated plants. These facts suggest that ethylene may be a major factor for stunting of blast infected rice plants.
Source: 日本植物病理學會報
Authors: Takuji KOZAKA, Toru TERAOKA
Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2316922583