The sesquiterpene alpha-copaene is induced in tomato leaves infected by Botrytis cinerea

Autor: J. Harbinson, Harro J. Bouwmeester, R.M.C. Jansen, G. van Straten, J. Thelen, E.J. Woltering, M.A. Posthumus
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2005
Předmět:
Zdroj: Journal of Plant Interactions, 1(3), 163-170
Journal of Plant Interactions 1 (2005) 3
ISSN: 1742-9145
DOI: 10.1080/17429140600968177
Popis: Explorative experiments were done to investigate the possibility that tomato plants infected by Botrytis cinerea have a different emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC) than healthy plants. This was done by headspace analysis of volatiles emitted by detached leaves of infected and healthy plants. Principal component analysis (PCA) of GC-FID chromatograms revealed clearly separated clusters between infected and control leaves and identification of an interesting compound. In further analysis by GC-MS, the significantly distinctive component (p≤0.05) was identified as the sesquiterpene α-copaene. In previous work on herbivore damage, α-copaene was not distinctive, which may suggest that α-copaene may be specifically associated to fungal infections in tomato.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje