Potato is one of the most important crops grown in Canada and all over the world. Late blight caused by P. infestans is one of the major diseases of potato and is mainly managed by fungicides application. The extensive use of fungicides not only causes adverse effects on the environment but also accelerates the development of resistance in this pathogen. Horizontal resistance is considered as the best choice to control P. infestans as it is durable over years. Breeding for durable resistance requires evaluation of hundreds of breeding lines in greenhouses and in the field. This is usually done by testing several epidemiological parameters such as infection efficiency, lesion size, latent period, and area under disease progress curve (AUDPC). These methods are time-consuming and expensive. The present study reports standardization of metabolic profiling protocols and exploration of metabolic profiling based on GC/MS as an additional tool to discriminate resistance in potato against late blight. Potato cultivars varying in horizontal resistance against late blight have been inoculated with water or the pathogen and more than 100 metabolites have been tentatively identified by GC/MS. Univariate analysis has been used to identify several pathogenesis related (PR) and defense related (DR) metabolites that have potential for application as resistance biomarker metabolites. Multivariate analysis of the abundances of metabolites (the mass spectral (MS) ion trap detector outputs were obtained using Saturn Lab Software Version 5.52 and these abundances are positively proportional to the concentration of mass ions of metabolites) in cultivars were mainly used to identify pathogenesis and resistance functions. Following pathogen inoculation, several metabolites such as amino acids, organic acids, fatty acids and sugars, were significantly increased in abundances, especially in the resistant cultivar. Other metabolites such as phenylalanine, tyrosine, shikimic acid and malonic acid detected here are well known for their direct participation in the shikimic acid, the phenylpropanoid, and the malonic acid metabolic pathways. These pathways lead to the production of several defense metabolites including antimicrobial compounds including phenolics, flavonoids and phytoalexins. The metabolic profiling technology developed here has the potential application for screening of potato breeding lines for horizontal resistance against late blight.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.102947 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Abu-Nada, Yousef. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Plant Science.) |
| Rights | © Yousef Abu-Nada, 2006 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002594208, proquestno: AAINR32127, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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