Toxic metabolites from culture filtrate of Fusarium oxysporum and its effects on cucumber cells and plantlets

Resistance of cucumber plantlets to culture filtrate of Fusarium oxysporum is correlated with resistance of single cells from callus. Single cells and plantlets of two cultivars of cucumber were incubated with culture filtrates. Rapid cell death occurred, as assessed by the stain fluorescein diacetate. More cell death ocurred in the cells of the cultivar Aodai than in to cells of the cultivar Caipira, which presented high level of resistance. Maximum toxic activity of culture filtrates was attained after 21-25 days of growth of the fungus.

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Main Authors: Melo,Itamar Soares de, Piccinin,Everaldo
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 1999
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37141999000200003
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