Secondary Metabolites, Other Prospective Substances, and Alternative Approaches That Could Promote Resistance against Phytophthora infestans

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a valuable staple crop that provides nutrition for a large part of the human population around the world. However, the domestication process reduced its resistance to pests and pathogens. Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late blight disease, is the most destr...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Agronomy (Basel) 2023-07, Vol.13 (7), p.1822
Main Authors: Dufková, Hana, Greplová, Marie, Hampejsová, Romana, Kuzmenko, Marharyta, Hausvater, Ervín, Brzobohatý, Břetislav, Černý, Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural production
Asexual reproduction
Biological control
breeding
Chemical treatment
Crop diseases
Cultivars
Defense mechanisms
Disease resistance
Domestication
Famine
Fungicides
Genes
Genomes
Genotype & phenotype
Human populations
Infections
Late blight
Late blight fungus
Lipid metabolism
Lipids
Marker-assisted selection
Metabolites
molecular markers
mQTL
Pathogens
Peptides
Pest resistance
Pests
Phytophthora infestans
Plant breeding
Plant diseases
Potatoes
Proteins
Secondary metabolites
Vegetables
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a valuable staple crop that provides nutrition for a large part of the human population around the world. However, the domestication process reduced its resistance to pests and pathogens. Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late blight disease, is the most destructive pathogen of potato plants. Considerable efforts have been made to develop late blight-resistant potato cultivars, but the success has been limited and present-day potato production requires the extensive use of fungicides. In this review, we summarize known sources of late blight resistance and obstacles in P. infestans control. We outline the problematic aspects of chemical treatment, the possible use of biological control, and available resources of natural resistance in wild Solanum accessions. We focus on prospective putative markers of resistance that are often overlooked in genome-centered studies, including secondary metabolites from alkaloid, phenylpropanoid, and terpenoid classes, lipids, proteins, and peptides. We discuss the suitability of these molecules for marker-assisted selection and the possibility of increasing the speed of conventional breeding of more resilient cultivars.
ISSN:2073-4395
2073-4395
DOI:10.3390/agronomy13071822