Intercellular chitinase and peroxidase activities associated with resistance conferred by gene Lr35 to leaf rust of wheat
2002
Anguelova-Merhar, V.S. | Van der Westhuizen, A.J. | Pretorius, Z.A.
The effect of leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) infection on intercellular chitinase (EC 3.2.1.14) and peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7) activities was studied in resistant [RL 6082 (Thatcher/Lr35)] and susceptible (Thatcher) near isogenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) lines at seedling, stem elongation and flag leaf stages of plant growth. The levels of activity of these enzymes were low during the seedling and stem elongation stages. Resistant plants at the flag leaf stage, during which the Lr35 resistance gene was maximally expressed, exhibited high constitutive levels of chitinase and peroxidase activities, in contrast to the lower constitutive levels of susceptible plants. The results suggest that chitinase and peroxidase, constitutively present in the intercellular spaces of Thatcher/Lr35 wheat leaves, may play a role in Lr35 mediated resistance to leaf rust.
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