Cytokinin-mediated enhancement of potato growth and yield by Verticillium Dahliae effector VDAL under low temperature stress
Jun Chun, Min Wan, Hongwei Guo, Qingpei Zhang, Yan Feng, Yunchuan Tang, Bo Zhu, Youshun Sang, Shenglin Jing, Tao Chen, Zixian Zeng · 2024
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Jun Chun and co-authors show that a protein powder borrowed from a crop fungus makes potatoes grow better and shrug off cold, in a 2024 paper. The protein, VDAL, is a weapon the fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes, yet at the right dose it boosts growth and yield in rice, wheat, and cotton. Potatoes, grown from tubers rather than seed, had barely been tested. The team treated pre-basic seed tubers and watched both shoots and roots.
Treated tubers sprouted better and grew sturdier plants above and below ground. Yields rose by up to about nineteen percent in greenhouse and field trials. Gene activity tracking and hormone measures pointed at cytokinin, a growth hormone, as the middleman. Cold resistance told the same story: treated tubers withstood late-spring cold, but a drug that blocks cytokinin erased the advantage. The authors frame VDAL as a cytokinin-driven growth aid.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jun Chun, Min Wan, Hongwei Guo, Qingpei Zhang, Yan Feng, Yunchuan Tang, Bo Zhu, Youshun Sang, Shenglin Jing, Tao Chen, Zixian Zeng |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |