Claim · model-written summary
The antagonistic effect of the BCA greatly reduced the total amount of PAT in apples.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticae1 - Treatment
- the antagonistic effect provided by the BCAe4
- Outcome
- total amount of PATe4
- Direction
- greatly reducede4
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Verbatim
e1“In wounded apples”
e4“the antagonistic effect provided by the BCA greatly reduced the total amount of PAT”
Title
Davide Palmieri; Cecilia Miccoli; Ivan Notardonato; et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 2022. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.973670
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Optimal BCA concentration gave almost complete protection of wounded apples from P. expansum infection.
- Intervention effect Suboptimal BCA concentration gave partial protection of wounded apples from P. expansum infection.
- Intervention effect Optimal BCA concentration reduced PAT contamination in wounded apples.
- Intervention effect Suboptimal BCA concentration reduced PAT contamination in wounded apples.
- Intervention effect Suboptimal BCA concentration increased the specific mycotoxigenic activity of P. expansum.
- Association In vitro, the rate of PAT biosynthesis was strictly related to extracellular pH.
- Association The highest amount of PAT was detected at extracellular pH in the range 4–7.
- Observation Only traces of PAT were detectable at pH 3.
- Intervention effect The BCA maintained extracellular pH around 4 against P. expansum-driven acidification in vitro and in apple wounds.
- Observation In the absence of LS28, pathogen-driven acidification rapidly led to acidic pH values below 3.
- Mechanism pH modulation by LS28 appears important to counteract host tissue acidification and the virulence of P. expansum.
- Association The buffering of P. expansum-driven acidification by the BCA increased the specific rate of PAT biosynthesis.