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Long-Term Impact of Chemical and Alternative Fungicides Applied to Grapevine cv Nebbiolo on Berry Transcriptome.

ABSTRACT: Viticulture is one of the horticultural systems in which antifungal treatments can be extremely frequent, with substantial economic and environmental costs. New products, such as biofungicides, resistance inducers and biostimulants, may represent alternative crop protection strategies respectful of the environmental sustainability and food safety. Here, the main purpose was to evaluate the systemic molecular modifications induced by biocontrol products as laminarin, resistance inducers (i.e., fosetyl-Al and potassium phosphonate), electrolyzed water and a standard chemical fungicide (i.e., metiram), on the transcriptomic profile of 'Nebbiolo' grape berries at harvest. In addition to a validation of the sequencing data through real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), for the first-time the expression of some candidate genes in different cell-types of berry skin (i.e., epidermal and hypodermal layers) was evaluated using the laser microdissection approach. Results showed that several considered antifungal treatments do not strongly affect the berry transcriptome profile at the end of season. Although some treatments do not activate long lasting molecular defense priming features in berry, some compounds appear to be more active in long-term responses. In addition, genes differentially expressed in the two-cell type populations forming the berry skin were found, suggesting a different function for the two-cell type populations.

SUBMITTER: Balestrini R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7504522 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Long-Term Impact of Chemical and Alternative Fungicides Applied to Grapevine <i>cv</i> Nebbiolo on Berry Transcriptome.

Balestrini Raffaella R Ghignone Stefano S Quiroga Gabriela G Fiorilli Valentina V Romano Irene I Gambino Giorgio G

International journal of molecular sciences 20200823 17

Viticulture is one of the horticultural systems in which antifungal treatments can be extremely frequent, with substantial economic and environmental costs. New products, such as biofungicides, resistance inducers and biostimulants, may represent alternative crop protection strategies respectful of the environmental sustainability and food safety. Here, the main purpose was to evaluate the systemic molecular modifications induced by biocontrol products as laminarin, resistance inducers (i.e., fo ...[more]

PMID: 32842492

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Long-Term Impact of Chemical and Alternative Fungicides Applied to Grapevine cv Nebbiolo on Berry Transcriptome.

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Long-Term Impact of Chemical and Alternative Fungicides Applied to Grapevine <i>cv</i> Nebbiolo on Berry Transcriptome.

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