title: Alternaria toxin-induced resistance in rose plants against rose aphid (Macrosiphum rosivorum): effect of tenuazonic acid.
abstract: Many different types of toxins are produced by the fungus, Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissler. Little is known, however, regarding the influence of these toxins on insects. In this study, we investigated the toxin-induced inhibitory effects of the toxin produced by A. alternata on the rose aphid, Macrosiphum rosivorum, when the toxin was applied to leaves of the rose, Rosa chinensis. The results demonstrated that the purified crude toxin was non-harmful to rose plants and rose aphids, but had an intensive inhibitory effect on the multiplication of aphids. The inhibitory index against rose aphids reached 87.99% when rose plants were sprayed with the toxin solution at a low concentration. Further results from bioassays with aphids and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analyses demonstrated that tenuazonic acid (TeA) was one of the most important resistance-related active components in the crude toxin. The content of TeA was 0.1199% in the crude toxin under the HPLC method. Similar to the crude toxin, the inhibitory index of pure TeA reached 83.60% 15 d after the rose plants were sprayed with pure TeA solution at the lower concentration of 0.060 μg/ml, while the contents of residual TeA on the surface and in the inner portion of the rose plants were only 0.04 and 0.00 ng/g fresh weight of TeA-treated rose twigs, respectively, 7 d after the treatment. Our results show that TeA, an active component in the A. alternata toxin, can induce the indirect plant-mediated responses in rose plants to intensively enhance the plant's resistances against rose aphids, and the results are very helpful to understand the plant-mediated interaction between fungi and insects on their shared host plants.
authors.affiliation: School of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China; Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control of Yunnan Province, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
authors.forename: Fa-zhong
authors.initials: FZ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Bei-bei
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001042:Aphids / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D060467:Disease Resistance; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D027826:Rosa / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000469:parasitology*; D013110:Sphingosine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D013720:Tenuazonic Acid / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: C047996:Alternaria alternata pathotoxin TA; D013720:Tenuazonic Acid; D013110:Sphingosine
keywords: Alternaria alternata; Fungus-plant-insect system; Induced resistance; Macrosiphum rosivorum; Plant-mediated interaction; Tenuazonic acid; Toxin
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