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Exogenous salicylic acid improves resistance of aphid-susceptible wheat to the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae (F.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2021

Jian-Lu Feng ,
Jie Zhang ,
Jun Yang ,
Ling-Ping Zou ,
Ting-Ting Fang ,
Huan-Li Xu  and
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Jian-Lu Feng
Affiliation:
College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Jie Zhang
Affiliation:
College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Jun Yang
Affiliation:
College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Ling-Ping Zou
Affiliation:
College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Ting-Ting Fang
Affiliation:
College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Huan-Li Xu*
Affiliation:
College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Pest Monitoring and Green Control, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Qing-Nian Cai*
Affiliation:
College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Pest Monitoring and Green Control, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Author for correspondence: Qing-Nian Cai, Email: caiqn@cau.edu.cn; Huan-Li Xu, Email: hanabati@cau.edu.cn
Author for correspondence: Qing-Nian Cai, Email: caiqn@cau.edu.cn; Huan-Li Xu, Email: hanabati@cau.edu.cn
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Abstract

Salicylic acid (SA), a phytohormone, has been considered to be a key regulator mediating plant defence against pathogens. It is still vague how SA activates plant defence against herbivores such as chewing and sucking pests. Here, we used an aphid-susceptible wheat variety to investigate Sitobion avenae response to SA-induced wheat plants, and the effects of exogenous SA on some defence enzymes and phenolics in the plant immune system. In SA-treated wheat seedlings, intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm), fecundity and apterous rate of S. avenae were 0.25, 31.4 nymphs/female and 64.4%, respectively, and significantly lower than that in the controls (P < 0.05). Moreover, the increased activities of phenylalanine-ammonia-lyase, polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and peroxidase in the SA-induced seedlings obviously depended on the sampling time, whereas activities of catalase and 4-coumarate:CoA ligase were suppressed significantly at 24, 48 and 72 h in comparison with the control. Dynamic levels of p-coumaric acid at 96 h, caffeic acid at 24 and 72 h and chlorogenic acid at 24, 48 and 96 h in wheat plants were significantly upregulated by exogenous SA application. Nevertheless, only caffeic acid content was positively correlated with PPO activity in SA-treated wheat seedlings (P = 0.031). These findings indicate that exogenous SA significantly enhanced the defence of aphid-susceptible wheat variety against aphids by regulating the plant immune system, and may prove a potential application of SA in aphid control.

Keywords

Defence-related enzymesphenolic acidsalicylic acidSitobion avenaeTriticum aestivum
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 111 , Issue 5 , October 2021 , pp. 544 - 552
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These authors equally contributed to this work.

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