Calcium-mediated reduction of soft rot disease in Chinese cabbage

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• 作者：Kátia Cilene da Silva Felix ; Cristiane Lima da Silva…
• 关键词：Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum ; Calcium nitrate ; Calcium chloride ; Ultrastructure ; Brassica rapa L. subsp. pekinensis
• 刊名：European Journal of Plant Pathology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：147
• 期：1
• 页码：73-84
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Plant Pathology; Plant Sciences; Ecology; Agriculture; Life Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-8469
• 卷排序：147

文摘

Soft rot of Chinese cabbage is a disease of great economic importance to the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of two calcium sources in different concentrations (calcium nitrate [Ca(NO₃)₂] at 0, 0.15 and 0.3 g l−1 and calcium chloride (CaCl₂) at 0, 1 and 5 g l−1) that were applied through two methods (leaf spraying and soil drenching) on the control of soft rot. Further, it aimed to analyze calcium absorption by the plant and to determine calcium’s role in leaf and cell structure using microscopy. Ca(NO₃)₂ applied by both methods was effective in controlling soft rot caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum, as it reduced the disease by up to 48.5 % when sprayed onto the leaves (0.15 g l−1). A significant increase in the leaf calcium content was observed only in the plants that were sprayed with higher doses of Ca(NO₃)₂ and CaCl₂. In all of the calcium treatments, light microscopy analyses revealed an increased number of chloroplasts and improved structuring of the palisade parenchyma, while transmission electron microscopy analyses revealed an increased cell wall thickness that was especially evident for the 0.15 g l−1 Ca(NO₃)₂ treatment applied by leaf spraying and soil drenching.