Claim · model-written summary
Endophyte positive cacao plants were enriched in nitrogen-15 and carbon-13 isotopes.
- Taxon
- Theobroma cacao
Theobroma cacaoe1 - Treatment
- Colletotrichum tropicale (E+)e1
- Interactor
- Colletotrichum tropicaleColletotrichum tropicalee1symbiont
- Outcome
- nitrogen-15 and carbon-13 isotopese0
- Direction
- enrichmente0
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Verbatim
e0“enrichment of nitrogen-15 and carbon-13 isotopes”
e1“Theobroma cacao leaves with Colletotrichum tropicale (E+)”
Title
Luis C. Mejía; Edward A. Herre; Jed P. Sparks; et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 2014. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00479
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Endophyte inoculation changed expression of hundreds of cacao genes, including defensive genes.
- Intervention effect Endophyte positive cacao plants had increased lignin and cellulose content.
- Intervention effect Endophyte positive cacao plants had reduced maximum photosynthesis.
- Association Phenotypic changes corresponded to expression changes in related functional genes.
- Mechanism Cacao gene Tc00g04254 conferred resistance to pathogen damage without endophytes or their products.
- Mechanism Authors attribute increased pathogen resistance partly to intrinsic defense upregulation.