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Evaluation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosans in Inducing the Defense Response of Coffea arabica against the Fungus Hemileia vastatrix
Chitosan is a natural polymer, and its biological properties depend on factors such as the degree of deacetylation and polymerization, viscosity, molecular mass, and dissociation constant. Chitosan has multiple advantages: it is biodegradable, biocompatible, safe, inexpensive, and non-toxic. Due to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8230575/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34207947 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13121940 |
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author | López-Velázquez, Julio César Haro-González, José Nabor García-Morales, Soledad Espinosa-Andrews, Hugo Navarro-López, Diego Eloyr Montero-Cortés, Mayra Itzcalotzin Qui-Zapata, Joaquín Alejandro |
author_facet | López-Velázquez, Julio César Haro-González, José Nabor García-Morales, Soledad Espinosa-Andrews, Hugo Navarro-López, Diego Eloyr Montero-Cortés, Mayra Itzcalotzin Qui-Zapata, Joaquín Alejandro |
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description | Chitosan is a natural polymer, and its biological properties depend on factors such as the degree of deacetylation and polymerization, viscosity, molecular mass, and dissociation constant. Chitosan has multiple advantages: it is biodegradable, biocompatible, safe, inexpensive, and non-toxic. Due to these characteristics, it has a wide range of applications. In agriculture, one of the most promising properties of chitosan is as an elicitor in plant defense against pathogenic microorganisms. In this work, four kinds of chitosan (practical grade, low molecular weight, medium molecular weight, and high-density commercial food grade) were used in concentrations of 0.01 and 0.05% to evaluate its protective effect against coffee rust. The best treatment was chosen to evaluate the defense response in coffee plants. The results showed a protective effect using practical-grade and commercial food-grade chitosan. In addition, the activity of enzymes with β-1,3 glucanase and peroxidase was induced, and an increase in the amount of phenolic compounds was observed in plants treated with high-molecular-weight chitosan at 0.05%; therefore, chitosan can be considered an effective molecule for controlling coffee rust. |
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spelling | pubmed-82305752021-06-26 Evaluation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosans in Inducing the Defense Response of Coffea arabica against the Fungus Hemileia vastatrix López-Velázquez, Julio César Haro-González, José Nabor García-Morales, Soledad Espinosa-Andrews, Hugo Navarro-López, Diego Eloyr Montero-Cortés, Mayra Itzcalotzin Qui-Zapata, Joaquín Alejandro Polymers (Basel) Article Chitosan is a natural polymer, and its biological properties depend on factors such as the degree of deacetylation and polymerization, viscosity, molecular mass, and dissociation constant. Chitosan has multiple advantages: it is biodegradable, biocompatible, safe, inexpensive, and non-toxic. Due to these characteristics, it has a wide range of applications. In agriculture, one of the most promising properties of chitosan is as an elicitor in plant defense against pathogenic microorganisms. In this work, four kinds of chitosan (practical grade, low molecular weight, medium molecular weight, and high-density commercial food grade) were used in concentrations of 0.01 and 0.05% to evaluate its protective effect against coffee rust. The best treatment was chosen to evaluate the defense response in coffee plants. The results showed a protective effect using practical-grade and commercial food-grade chitosan. In addition, the activity of enzymes with β-1,3 glucanase and peroxidase was induced, and an increase in the amount of phenolic compounds was observed in plants treated with high-molecular-weight chitosan at 0.05%; therefore, chitosan can be considered an effective molecule for controlling coffee rust. MDPI 2021-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8230575/ /pubmed/34207947 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13121940 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article López-Velázquez, Julio César Haro-González, José Nabor García-Morales, Soledad Espinosa-Andrews, Hugo Navarro-López, Diego Eloyr Montero-Cortés, Mayra Itzcalotzin Qui-Zapata, Joaquín Alejandro Evaluation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosans in Inducing the Defense Response of Coffea arabica against the Fungus Hemileia vastatrix |
title | Evaluation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosans in Inducing the Defense Response of Coffea arabica against the Fungus Hemileia vastatrix |
title_full | Evaluation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosans in Inducing the Defense Response of Coffea arabica against the Fungus Hemileia vastatrix |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosans in Inducing the Defense Response of Coffea arabica against the Fungus Hemileia vastatrix |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosans in Inducing the Defense Response of Coffea arabica against the Fungus Hemileia vastatrix |
title_short | Evaluation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosans in Inducing the Defense Response of Coffea arabica against the Fungus Hemileia vastatrix |
title_sort | evaluation of the physicochemical properties of chitosans in inducing the defense response of coffea arabica against the fungus hemileia vastatrix |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8230575/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34207947 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13121940 |
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