Abstract
Aims
Sugarcane plants infected with Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli (Lxx) have their primary metabolism affected with decreased levels of sugars and amino acids. Cysteine and methionine are sulfur-containing essential amino acids used for bacterial growth and the Lxx titer in sugar cane leaves could affect the animo acid concentrations. The goal of this study was to evaluate how the increase in Lxx titer affects the nutritional status and sulfur metabolism in sugar cane leaves.
Methods
Susceptible sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) genotype: CB49260 was used in this study with low (256 cells) and high (2090 cells) Lxx titers and macronutrients and primary metabolites assessed from leaves and culms.
Results
Plants with high Lxx titers accumulated more biomass in the main culm, leaves, and shoots than plants with low Lxx titers. Additionally, plants with high Lxx titers had 26% more sulfur content in leaves than plants with low Lxx titers. Higher levels of sulfate, sucrose, maltose, raffinose, shikimic acid, malate, putrescine, glycerol, and, erythritol were also present in plants with high Lxx titers; but decreased levels of methionine and glutathione in leaves. In the culm, plants with high Lxx titers also had increased levels of maltose; but decreased levels of threonine, ornithine, phenylalanine and myo-inositol when compared with plants with low Lxx titers.
Conclusions
This study demonstrated that high bacterial titers increase sulfur demand in sugar cane; however, the increased S content in the leaf did not result in higher sulfur assimilation, verified by increased sulfate but decreased methionine and glutathione levels. Therefore, our study showed that lower methionine availability, and methionine catabolism to putrescine in the leaves may fail to meet the increased sulfur organic compound demand of Lxx. The decrease in glutathione biosynthesis may reflect impaired biosynthesis or a drain on this antioxidant resulting from oxidative stresss by pathogenesis of Lxx.
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Abbreviations
- APS:
-
Adenosine phosphosulfate
- DAP:
-
Days after planting
- DTNB:
-
5,5′-Dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid)
- EDTA:
-
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
- GR:
-
Glutathione Reductase
- GSH:
-
Reduced glutathione
- GSSH:
-
Oxidized glutathione
- GST:
-
Total glutathione
- Lxx :
-
Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli
- MDA:
-
Malonoaldeyde
- NADPH:
-
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
- PVPP:
-
Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone
- RSD:
-
Ratoon stunting disease
- SAM:
-
S-adenosylmethionine
- TCA:
-
Tricarboxylic acid
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This study was financed in part by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) - Brazil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001 and The Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ), through a scholarship (# 169260/2017-8). JL is grateful to CNPq for the productivity grant # 303718/2020-0. We would also like to thank the technicians Pedro Conceição Arthuso, Salete Aparecida Gaziola and Cleusa Pereira Cabral for their technical support in this study.
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Garcia, F.H.S., Domingues-Júnior, A.P., Lima Nogueira, M. et al. Impact of Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli titer on nutritional status, and metabolism of sugar cane. Plant Soil 493, 341–354 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-06230-0
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