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Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Sardinia Virus Increases Drought Tolerance of Tomato

Drought stress is one of the major physiological stress factors that adversely affect agricultural production, altering critical features of plant growth and metabolism. Plants can be subjected simultaneously to abiotic and biotic stresses, such as drought and viral infections. Rewarding effects pro...

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Autores principales: Sacco Botto, Camilla, Matić, Slavica, Moine, Amedeo, Chitarra, Walter, Nerva, Luca, D’Errico, Chiara, Pagliarani, Chiara, Noris, Emanuela
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36769211
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24032893
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author Sacco Botto, Camilla
Matić, Slavica
Moine, Amedeo
Chitarra, Walter
Nerva, Luca
D’Errico, Chiara
Pagliarani, Chiara
Noris, Emanuela
author_facet Sacco Botto, Camilla
Matić, Slavica
Moine, Amedeo
Chitarra, Walter
Nerva, Luca
D’Errico, Chiara
Pagliarani, Chiara
Noris, Emanuela
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description Drought stress is one of the major physiological stress factors that adversely affect agricultural production, altering critical features of plant growth and metabolism. Plants can be subjected simultaneously to abiotic and biotic stresses, such as drought and viral infections. Rewarding effects provided by viruses on the ability of host plants to endure abiotic stresses have been reported. Recently, begomoviruses causing the tomato yellow leaf curl disease in tomatoes were shown to increase heat and drought tolerance. However, biological bases underlying the induced drought tolerance need further elucidation, particularly in the case of tomato plants. In this work, tomato plants infected by the tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus (TYLCSV) were subjected to severe drought stress, followed by recovery. Morphological traits, water potential, and hormone contents were measured in leaves together with molecular analysis of stress-responsive and hormone metabolism-related genes. Wilting symptoms appeared three days later in TYLCSV-infected plants compared to healthy controls and post-rehydration recovery was faster (2 vs. 4 days, respectively). Our study contributes new insights into the impact of viruses on the plant’s adaptability to environmental stresses. On a broader perspective, such information could have important practical implications for managing the effects of climate change on agroecosystems.
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spelling pubmed-99182852023-02-11 Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Sardinia Virus Increases Drought Tolerance of Tomato Sacco Botto, Camilla Matić, Slavica Moine, Amedeo Chitarra, Walter Nerva, Luca D’Errico, Chiara Pagliarani, Chiara Noris, Emanuela Int J Mol Sci Article Drought stress is one of the major physiological stress factors that adversely affect agricultural production, altering critical features of plant growth and metabolism. Plants can be subjected simultaneously to abiotic and biotic stresses, such as drought and viral infections. Rewarding effects provided by viruses on the ability of host plants to endure abiotic stresses have been reported. Recently, begomoviruses causing the tomato yellow leaf curl disease in tomatoes were shown to increase heat and drought tolerance. However, biological bases underlying the induced drought tolerance need further elucidation, particularly in the case of tomato plants. In this work, tomato plants infected by the tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus (TYLCSV) were subjected to severe drought stress, followed by recovery. Morphological traits, water potential, and hormone contents were measured in leaves together with molecular analysis of stress-responsive and hormone metabolism-related genes. Wilting symptoms appeared three days later in TYLCSV-infected plants compared to healthy controls and post-rehydration recovery was faster (2 vs. 4 days, respectively). Our study contributes new insights into the impact of viruses on the plant’s adaptability to environmental stresses. On a broader perspective, such information could have important practical implications for managing the effects of climate change on agroecosystems. MDPI 2023-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9918285/ /pubmed/36769211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24032893 Text en © 2023 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/).
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Sacco Botto, Camilla
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Moine, Amedeo
Chitarra, Walter
Nerva, Luca
D’Errico, Chiara
Pagliarani, Chiara
Noris, Emanuela
Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Sardinia Virus Increases Drought Tolerance of Tomato
title Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Sardinia Virus Increases Drought Tolerance of Tomato
title_full Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Sardinia Virus Increases Drought Tolerance of Tomato
title_fullStr Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Sardinia Virus Increases Drought Tolerance of Tomato
title_full_unstemmed Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Sardinia Virus Increases Drought Tolerance of Tomato
title_short Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Sardinia Virus Increases Drought Tolerance of Tomato
title_sort tomato yellow leaf curl sardinia virus increases drought tolerance of tomato
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36769211
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24032893
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