Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Fungicidal Activity of Musilage Development Polysaccharides of Common Flax Linum usitatissimum L.

  • PLANT PROTECTION
  • Published:
Russian Agricultural Sciences Aims and scope

Abstract

Seeds of a number of flowering plant species quickly mucilage after moistening, which indicates certain adaptive advantages of this trait in conditions of natural selection. Seed mucus can enter into various reactions with soil, including pathogenic mycoflora. The aim of the investigation was to establish the response of fungicidal activity of seed mucus in relation to soil fungal pathogens. The seeds of common flax Linum usitatissimum and pathogenic soil fungus Fusarium oxysporum were the objects of study. Observations showed that the mucus, which already formed 2–3 h after moistening flax seeds in Petri dishes with F. oxysporum mycelium, begins to inhibit fungal hyphae. After 1 day, sterile zones with a diameter of 9.4 ± 0.34 mm are formed around the mucous seeds. The extract of flax mucus also has fungicidal properties. The average diameter of the sterile zones after spot application of 0.05 mL flaxseed mucus to the mycelium of the F. oxysporum was 9.65 ± 0.22 mm. Studies have revealed the phenomenon of an earlier undescribed fungicidal activity of polysaccharide flaxseed mucus in relation to the F. oxysporum. The nonspecific fungicidal activity of seed mucus can be used in the breeding of common flax varieties as a new trait of natural protection of germinating seeds.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.

Similar content being viewed by others

REFERENCES

  1. Zhukovskii, P.M., Kul’turnye rasteniya i ikh sorodichi. Sistematika, geografiya, tsitogenetika, immunitet, ekologiya, proiskhozhdenie, ispol’zovanie (Cultivated Plants and Their Relatives. Systematics, Geography, Cytogenetics, Immunity, Ecology, Origin, and Use), Leningrad: Kolos, 1971.

  2. Vekhov, V.N., Gubanov, I.A., and Lebedeva, G.F., Kul’turnye rasteniya SSSR (Cultural Plants of the USSR), Moscow: Mysl’, 1978.

  3. Yang, X., Baskin, J., Baskin, C., and Huang, Z., More than just a coating: Ecological importance, taxonomic occurrence and phylogenetic relationships of seed coat mucilage, Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst., 2012, vol. 14, pp. 434–442.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. North, H.M., Berger, A., Saez-Aguayo, S., and Ralet, M.-C., Understanding polysaccharide production and properties using seed coat mutants: Future perspectives for the exploitation of natural variants, Ann. Bot., 2014, vol. 114, pp. 1251–1263.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Sautkina, T.A. and Poliksenova, V.D., Morfologiya rastenii: Kurs lektsii v 2 ch. (Morphology of Plants: A Course of Lectures in Two Volumes), Minsk: Belarus. Gos. Univ., 2004, vol. 1.

  6. Konopleva, M.M., Farmakognoziya: Prirodnye biologicheski aktivnye veshchestva (Pharmacognosy: Natural Biologically Active Substances), Vitebsk: Vitebsk. Gos. Med. Univ., 2010.

  7. Kreitschitz, A., Mucilage formation in selected taxa of the genus Artemisia L. (Asteraceae, Anthemideae), Seed Sci. Res., 2012, vol. 22, pp. 177–189.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Yang, X., Baskin, C.C., Baskin, J.M., Liu, G., and Huang, Z., Seed mucilage improves seedling emergence of a sand desert shrub, PLoS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034597

  9. Naran, R., Chen, G., and Carpita, N.C., Novel rhamnogalacturonan I and arabinoxylan polysaccharides of flax seed mucilage, Plant Physiol., 2008, vol. 148, pp. 132–141.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Fedeniuk, R.W. and Biliaderis, C.B., Composition and physicochemical properties of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) mucilage, J. Agric. Food Chem., 1994, vol. 42, pp. 240–247.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Cui, S.W., Polysaccharide Gums from Agricultural Products: Processing, Structures and Functionality, Lancaster: Technomic Publishing, 2001.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Warrand, J., Michaud, P., Picton, L., Muller, G., Courtois, B., Ralainirina, R., and Courtois, J., Structural investigation of the neutral polysaccharide of Linum usitatissimum L. seed mucilage, Int. J. Biol. Macromol., 2005, vol. 35, nos. 3–4, pp. 121–125.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Olennikov, D.N. and Tankhaeva, L.M., Investigation of the process of extraction of polysaccharides of flax seeds (Linum usitatissimum L.), Khim. Rast. Syr’ya, 2007, no. 4, pp. 79–83.

  14. Duguid, S.D., Flax, in Oil Crops, Handbook of Plant Breeding, Vollmann, J. and Rajcan, I., Eds., London–New York: Springler, 2009, vol. 4, pp. 233–255.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Zelentsov, S.V. and Moshnenko, E.V., Quantitative and qualitative assessment of seed mucus in L. usitatissimum L. flax oilseed cultivars, Maslichn. Kul’t., 2012, no. 2, pp. 95–102.

  16. Soil Microbiology, Walker, N., Ed., London–Boston: Butterworths, 1975.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Mendes, R., Garbeva, P., and Raaijmakers Jos, M., The rhizosphere microbiome: Significance of plant beneficial, plant pathogenic, and human pathogenic microorganisms, FEMS Microbiol. Rev., 2013, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 634–663.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Larsen, J., Jaramillo-López, P., Nájera-Rincon, M., and Gonzaléz-Esquivel, C.E., Biotic interactions in the rhizosphere in relation to plant and soil nutrient dynamics, J. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr., 2015, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 449–463.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. Gerlach, W. and Nirenberg, H., The Genus Fusarium. A Pictorial Atlas, Berlin, 1982.

  20. Fracchia, S., Garcia-Romera, I., Godeas, A., and Ocampo, J.A., Effect of the saprophytic fungus Fusarium oxysporum on arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization and growth of plants in greenhouse and field trials, Plant Soil, 2000, vol. 223, pp. 175–184.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  21. Yang, X., Baskin, C.C., Baskin, J.M., Zhang, W., and Huang, Z., Degradation of seed mucilage by soil microflora promotes early seedling growth of a desert sand dune plant, Plant Cell Environ., 2012, vol. 35, pp. 872–883.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Federal Scientific Center Pustovoit All-Russia Research Institute of Oil Crops, 350038, Krasnodar, Russia

    V. M. Lukomets, S. V. Zelentsov, G. M. Saenko, E. V. Moshnenko & V. S. Zelentsov

Authors
  1. V. M. Lukomets
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. S. V. Zelentsov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. G. M. Saenko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. E. V. Moshnenko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. V. S. Zelentsov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to V. M. Lukomets.

Ethics declarations

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. This article does not contain any studies involving animals or human participants performed by any of the authors.

Additional information

Translated by M. Shulskaya

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Lukomets, V.M., Zelentsov, S.V., Saenko, G.M. et al. Fungicidal Activity of Musilage Development Polysaccharides of Common Flax Linum usitatissimum L.. Russ. Agricult. Sci. 46, 231–234 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068367420030118

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068367420030118

Search

Navigation