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Phytopathology ; 109(6): 916-931, 2019 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30852973

ABSTRACT

Vitis vinifera is affected by many diseases every year, depending on causal agents, susceptibility of cultivars, and climate region. Some are caused by a single agent, such as gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea or powdery mildew caused by Erysiphe necator. Others result from the actions of a complex of pathogens such as grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs). GTDs are presently among the most devastating diseases in viticulture worldwide because both the economic losses and the long-term sustainability of vineyards are strongly affected. The complexity of GTDs results from the diversity of associated fungi, the undetermined period of latency within the vine (asymptomatic status), the erratic foliar symptom expression from one year to the next, and, probably correlated with all of these points, the lack of efficient strategies to control them. Distinct methods can be beneficial to improve our knowledge of GTDs. In vitro bioassays with cell suspensions, calli, foliar discs, full leaves, or plantlets, and in vivo natural bioassays with cuttings, grafted plants in the greenhouse, or artificially infected ones in the vineyard, can be applied by using progressive integrative levels of in vitro and in vivo, depending on the information searched. In this review, the methods available to understand GTDs are described in terms of experimental procedures, main obtained results, and deliverable prospects. The advantages and disadvantages of each model are also discussed.


Subject(s)
Ascomycota , Vitis , Plant Diseases , Plant Leaves , Vitis/microbiology
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Plant Sci ; 241: 120-7, 2015 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26706064

ABSTRACT

AsES (Acremonium strictum Elicitor and Subtilisin) is a novel extracellular elicitor protein produced by the avirulent isolate SS71 of the opportunist strawberry fungal pathogen A. strictum. Here we describe the activity of AsES in the plant-pathogen system Arabidopsis thaliana-Botrytis cinerea. We show that AsES renders A. thaliana plants resistant to the necrotrophic pathogen B. cinerea, both locally and systemically and the defense response observed is dose-dependent. Systemic, but not local resistance is dependent on the length of exposure to AsES. The germination of the spores in vitro was not inhibited by AsES, implying that protection to B. cinerea is due to the induction of the plant defenses. These results were further supported by the findings that AsES differentially affects mutants impaired in the response to salicylic acid, jasmonic acid and ethylene, suggesting that AsES triggers the defense response through these three signaling pathways.


Subject(s)
Acremonium/chemistry , Arabidopsis/immunology , Arabidopsis/microbiology , Botrytis/drug effects , Fungal Proteins/pharmacology , Plant Diseases/prevention & control , Plant Immunity , Cyclopentanes/metabolism , Disease Resistance , Ethylenes/metabolism , Oxylipins/metabolism , Plant Diseases/microbiology , Plant Growth Regulators/metabolism , Salicylic Acid/metabolism , Signal Transduction
3.
Protoplasma ; 251(6): 1417-26, 2014 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24752796

ABSTRACT

Three major grapevine trunk diseases, esca, botryosphaeria dieback and eutypa dieback, pose important economic problems for vineyards worldwide, and currently, no efficient treatment is available to control these diseases. The different fungi associated with grapevine trunk diseases can be isolated in the necrotic wood, but not in the symptomatic leaves. Other factors seem to be responsible for the foliar symptoms and may represent the link between wood and foliar symptoms. One hypothesis is that the extracellular compounds produced by the fungi associated with grapevine trunk diseases are responsible for pathogenicity.In the present work, we used Vitis vinifera cv. Chardonnay cells to test the aggressiveness of total extracellular compounds produced by Diplodia seriata and Neofusicoccum parvum, two causal agents associated with botryosphaeria dieback. Additionally, the toxicity of purified mellein, a characteristic toxin present in the extracellular compounds of Botryosphaeriaceae, was assessed.Our results show that the total extracellular compounds produced by N. parvum induce more necrosis on Chardonnay calli and induce a different defence gene expression pattern than those of D. seriata. Mellein was produced by both fungi in amounts proportional to its aggressiveness. However, when purified mellein was added to the culture medium of calli, only a delayed necrosis and a lower-level expression of defence genes were observed. Extracellular compounds seem to be involved in the pathogenicity of the fungi associated with botryosphaeria dieback. However, the doses of mellein used in this study are 100 times higher than those found in the liquid fungal cultures: therefore, the possible function of this toxin is discussed.


Subject(s)
Ascomycota/chemistry , Extracellular Space/chemistry , Gene Expression Regulation, Plant , Plant Cells/metabolism , Plant Diseases/microbiology , Vitis/genetics , Vitis/microbiology , Necrosis , Ochratoxins/analysis , Plant Diseases/genetics , Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
4.
J Ethnopharmacol ; 101(1-3): 283-6, 2005 Oct 03.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15967609

ABSTRACT

Antibacterial bioassay-guided fractionation of Syzygium guineense leaf extracts afforded 10 triterpenes, namely betulinic acid 1, oleanolic acid 2, a mixture of 2-hydroxyoleanolic acid 3a, 2-hydroxyursolic acid 3b, arjunolic acid 4a, asiatic acid 4b, a mixture of terminolic acid 5a, 6-hydroxyasiatic acid 5b, and a mixture of arjunolic acid 28-beta-glucopyranosyl ester 6a and the asiatic acid 28-beta-glucopyranosyl ester 6b. Isolated compounds were submitted to an antibacterial assay system against gram-positive and -negative bacteria and human pathogen bacteria. Compounds 4a and 4b showed the most significant antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Shigella sonnei. The fraction 5a-5b was the least active, whereas compounds 1, 2 and the mixtures of 3a-3b and 6a-6b were inactive in the assays.


Subject(s)
Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Plant Extracts/pharmacology , Syzygium/chemistry , Triterpenes/pharmacology , Microbial Sensitivity Tests
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J Microbiol Methods ; 48(2-3): 207-19, 2002 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11777570

ABSTRACT

Cyanobacteria are an ancient and diverse group of photosynthetic microorganisms, which inhabit many different and extreme environments. This indicates a high degree of biological adaptation, which has enabled these organisms to thrive and compete effectively in nature. The filamentous cyanobacterium, Lyngbya majuscula, produces several promising antifungal and cytotoxic agents, including laxaphycin A and B and curacin A. Samples of L. majuscula collected from Moorea Island, Tahiti (French Polynesia) and from the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP 1446/4) were studied and adapted to large scale laboratory culture (5 l). This constitutes a 100-fold scale-up for the culture of this particular strain of L. majuscula. The effect of culture vessel configurations, growth conditions and media compositions on growth of L. majuscula was examined. Using optimised culture conditions, two strains of L. majuscula are currently being evaluated for their production of secondary metabolites. Results will be compared with those obtained from four environmental extracts. Comparisons were made by thin layer chromatography (TLC), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FTICR-MS). It was shown that varying the culture conditions under which L. majuscula was grown had the greatest effect on secondary metabolite production, thus providing potential for future bioprocess intensified production.


Subject(s)
Cyanobacteria/metabolism , Lipoproteins/analysis , Water Microbiology , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , Chromatography, Thin Layer , Culture Media , Mass Spectrometry
6.
J Nat Prod ; 57(4): 528-33, 1994 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8021654

ABSTRACT

Chemical investigations of the Caribbean ascidian Lissoclinum fragile (Didemnidae) have resulted in the isolation of new alkaloids which we have designated eudistomin U [1] and isoeudistomin U [2]. Their structures were determined by spectrometric and chemical means.


Subject(s)
Alkaloids/isolation & purification , Carbolines/chemical synthesis , Urochordata/chemistry , Agrobacterium tumefaciens/drug effects , Alkaloids/chemistry , Animals , Carbolines/pharmacology , Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor , Humans , In Vitro Techniques , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Mass Spectrometry , Microbial Sensitivity Tests , Spectrophotometry, Infrared , Tumor Cells, Cultured
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