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Provedor de dados: | 102
País: | Brazil
Título: | Sugarcane yellow leaf virus infection leads to alterations in photosynthetic efficiency and carbohydrate accumulation in sugarcane leaves
Autores: | Gonçalves,Marcos C.; Vega,Jorge; Oliveira,Jurandi G.; Gomes,Mara M. A.
Data: | 2005-02-01
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Luteoviridae; Carbon metabolism; Photoinhibition; Virus symptoms.
Resumo: | Infection by Sugarcane yellow leaf virus (ScYLV) causes severe leaf symptoms in sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) hybrids, which indicate alterations in its photosynthetic apparatus. To gain an overview of the physiological status of infected plants, we evaluated chlorophyll a fluorescence and gas exchange assays, correlating the results with leaf metabolic surveys, i.e., photosynthetic pigments and carbohydrate contents. When compared to healthy plants, infected plants showed a reduction in potential quantum efficiency for photochemistry of photosystem (PSII) and alterations in the filling up of the plastoquinone (PQ) pool. They also showed reduction in the CO2 net exchange rates, probably as a consequence of impaired quantum yield. In addition, reductions were found in the contents of photosynthetic leaf pigments and in the ratio chlorophyll a/chlorophyll b (chla/chlb). Carbohydrate content in the leaves was increased as a secondary effect of the ScYLV infection. This article discusses the relation of virus replication and host defense responses with general alterations in the photosynthetic apparatus and in the metabolism of infected plants.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-41582005000100002
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Fitopatologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-41582005000100002
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Fitopatologia Brasileira  v.30 n.1 2005
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess