Claim · model-written summary
Severe water deficit enhanced olive fruit tolerance to anthracnose infection.
- Taxon
- olive trees
Olea europaeae0 - Treatment
- Severe water deficite5
- Interactor
- Colletotrichum complexe0pathogen
- Outcome
- tolerance to anthracnose infectione5
- Direction
- enhancede5
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Verbatim
e0“Anthracnose, caused by the Colletotrichum complex, is a major disease in olive trees”
e5“Severe water deficit resulted in significant reductions in fruit weight and oil content, but the fruits exhibited enhanced tolerance to anthracnose infection”
Title
Ana Paula Conde Innamorato; Julio Omar Borsani Cambón; Inés Ponce de León Agrociencia Uruguay 2024. doi:10.31285/agro.28.1474
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Water deficit reduced incidence and severity of C. acutatum infection of olive fruits in vitro and in vivo.
- Intervention effect Water deficit decreased fruit weight of olive fruits.
- Intervention effect Water deficit decreased the pulp/pit ratio of olive fruits.
- Intervention effect Water deficit increased cuticle thickness of olive fruits.
- Intervention effect Water deficit increased fruit polyphenol content of olive fruits.
- Observation Enzymes related to hydrogen peroxide scavenging were induced, in particular PER and CAT.
- Intervention effect Enzymatic activity was induced by the pathogen inoculation treatment.
- Intervention effect Enzymatic activity was higher in the non-irrigated treatment.
- Intervention effect Severe water deficit significantly reduced fruit weight and oil content.