Effect of immunity inductors on the structural and functional state of photosynthetic apparatus and oxidative status of cucumber plants (cucumis sativus l.) Infected by Fusarium oxysporum

The effect of inductors of the immune response of β-aminobutyric acid (BABA), β-1.3-glucan (GK), salicylic acid (SA) and their mixture on the structural and functional state of photosynthetic apparatus and the oxidative status of cucumber plants under infection by fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum was studied. It was found that the disorganizing effect of the pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxusporum in cucumber plants caused the suppression of the synthesis of photosynthetic pigments and the functional activity of the photosystem 2 in chloroplast membranes, as well as in changing the character of the redistribution of absorbed light energy, leading to a decrease in the photochemical energy conversion (qP) and enhancing non-photochemical quenching (qN) of chlorophyll. In this conditions intensification of lipid peroxidation processes was observed. The use of immunomodulators such as BABA, GK and SA promotes the improvement of the adaptive properties of the photosynthetic apparatus, and the reduction of oxidative processes activity in infected cucumber leaves, which indicates the protective role of these substances against the fusarious wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum.

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