Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 69, Issue 50, Pages 15145-15156Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c06500
Keywords
plant parasitic nematode; rhizosphere; non-host plant; olfaction; terpenoids; repellent
Funding
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the Section for research, innovation, and higher education [RAF-3058 KEN-18/0005]
- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service [58-6615-3-011 F]
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), UK's Department for International Development (DFID)
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
- Kenyan Government
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The study found that the root volatiles of non-host plants such as black-jack, marigold, and sweet wormwood contain (E)-beta-farnesene and 1,8-cineole, which have repellent effects on plant parasitic nematodes. In contrast, camphor was found to be attractive to the nematodes. Terpenoids in the root volatiles of non-host Asteraceae plants are generally responsible for their repellency towards PPNs.
Olfactory cues guide plant parasitic nematodes (PPNs) to their host plants. We tested the hypothesis that non-host plant root volatiles repel PPNs. To achieve this, we compared the olfactory responses of infective juveniles (J2s) of the PPN Meloidogyne incognita to four non-host Asteraceae plants, namely, black-jack (Bidens pilosa), pyrethrum (Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium), marigold (Tagetes minuta), and sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), traditionally used in sub-Saharan Africa for the management of PPNs. Chemical analysis by coupled gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) combined with random forest analysis, followed by behavioral assays, identified the repellents in the root volatiles of B. pilosa, T. minuta, and A. annua as (E)-beta-farnesene and 1,8-cineole, whereas camphor was attractive. In contrast, random forest analysis predicted repellents for C. cinerariifolium and A. annua as beta-patchoulene and isopropyl hexadecanoate. Our results suggested that terpenoids generally account for the repellency of non-host Asteraceae plants used in PPN management.
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