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Antioxidant activity of P inus pinaster infected with F usarium circinatum is influenced by maternal effects
Author(s) -
Vivas M.,
Nunes C.,
Coimbra M. A.,
Solla A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
forest pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1439-0329
pISSN - 1437-4781
DOI - 10.1111/efp.12111
Subject(s) - biology , pinus pinaster , antioxidant , pathogen , inoculation , offspring , botany , horticulture , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , pregnancy , genetics
Summary The antioxidant activity of P inus pinaster seedlings originating from two contrasting maternal environments and inoculated with the fungal pathogen F usarium circinatum was examined. The antioxidant activity related positively to the stem necrosis caused by the pathogen (p = 0.005), but this relationship differed significantly between maternal environments (p ≤ 0.002). Seedlings from mother trees grown under a favourable environment expressed a more variable antioxidant activity to F . circinatum than seedlings from mother trees grown in a less favourable environment. Antioxidant activity ranging from 80 to 100% resulted in shorter necrosis in seedlings from the favourable maternal environment than in seedlings from the unfavourable environment. Maternal effects caused shifts in the relationship between antioxidant activity and necrosis in offspring, and significantly modified the individual plant capacity for antioxidant response on pathogen penetration.