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The activities of chitinase, β-1,3-glucanase, peroxidase and phenylalanine ammonia lyase, constitutive and induced by Stagonospora nodorum were examined in the 10 – 14 day old seedlings of three triticale and two wheat cultivars under controlled environmental conditions and in flag leaves of two triticale cultivars in the field. Two S. nodorum isolates of different virulence were used. Both the constitutive and induced activities in triticale and wheat depended on genotype and in triticale the effect of growth conditions was also evidenced. The constitutive activities of chitinase, β-1,3-glucanase and peroxidase were several fold lower in flag triticale leaves in plants from the field than in the seedlings, growing under controlled conditions, but induction in the infected flag leaves was significantly more pronounced. In triticale genotypic differences in the response to infection were revealed only upon inoculation by S. nodorum isolate of higher virulence. The enzymatic activities increased several fold during successive days after the infection except for phenylalanine ammonia lyase. Induction of this enzyme was only transient and the activity decreased 48 or 96 h after infection when the activities of other enzymes were rising. In flag leaves in the field this activity was differentiated only after infection with more a virulent strain.
A tendency appeared in triticale seedlings for association of the resistance to the pathogen with lower enzymatic constitutive activities. This relationship became more evident in triticale infected by S. nodorum and may imply that although the investigated enzymes are certainly involved in general, non-specific defense mechanism, they do not decide on the resistance to pathogen at least in the early stages of infection and cooperate with other factors in the complex pathogen-plant interaction. One can also assume that the enzymatic activities are associated with severity of infection rather than resistance to pathogen.
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Rybka, K., Arseniuk, E., Wiśniewska, J. et al. Comparative studies on the activities of chitinase, β-1,3-glucanase, peroxidase and phenylalanine ammonia lyase in the leaves of triticale and wheat infected with Stagonospora nodorum . Acta Physiol Plant 20, 59–66 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-998-0044-y
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