Volume 15, No 3, Mar 2005
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)
Volume 15 Issue 3, March 2005: 187-192
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Preliminary studies on differential defense responses induced during plant communication
Jin Ying PENG1,3, Zhong Hai LI2, Hui XIANG1,3, Jian Hua HUANG1,3, Shi Hai JIA1,3, Xue Xia MIAO1, Yong Ping HUANG1*
1Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China
2Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, 250 Bibo Road, Shanghai 201203, China
3Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Correspondence: Yong Ping HUANG(yongping@iris.sipp.ac.cn)
We compared the expression patterns of three representative genes in undamaged tomato and tobacco plants in response to exposure to either tomato or tobacco fed on by Helicoverpa armigera (cotton bollworm). When tomato and tobacco, two species of one family, were incubated in the chambers with the tomato plants damaged by the cotton bollworm, the expression of the PR1, BGL2, and PAL genes was up-regulated in leaves of both plants. However, the levels of gene expression were significantly higher in the tomato than that in the tobacco. In addition, the activities of enzymes, peroxidase, polyphenol oxidase, and lipoxygenase were found to be higher in the tomato than those in the tobacco. Similar results were obtained when the damaged plants were replaced by the tobacco.
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