Sugar beet root susceptibility to storage rots and downregulation of plant defense genes increases with time in storage.

ABSTRACT: Storage rots are a significant cause of postharvest losses for the sugar beet crop, however, intrinsic physiological and genetic factors that determine the susceptibility of roots to pathogen infection and disease development are unknown. Research, therefore, was carried out to evaluate the disease development in sugar beet roots caused by two common storage pathogens as a function of storage duration and storage temperature, and to identify changes in the expression of defense genes that may be influencing the root susceptibility to disease. To evaluate root susceptibility to disease, freshly harvested roots were inoculated with Botrytis cinerea or Penicillium vulpinum on the day of harvest or after 12, 40, or 120 d storage at 5 or 12 °C and the weight of rotted tissue present in the root

SUBMITTER: Kandel SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11549380 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature