Early Molecular Responses of Tomato to Combined Moderate Water Stress and Tomato Red Spider Mite Tetranychus evansi Attack
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Physiological Characterization of Tomato Plants under Moderate Drought and T. evansi Stress Combination
2.2. Hormonal Levels of Moderate Drought-Stressed Tomato Plants Alone or Combination with T. evansi
2.3. Stress Response Gene Expression Analysis of Tomato Plants
2.4. Metabolite Profiling
3. Discussion
3.1. Moderate Drought Stress Effects on Tomato Plants
3.2. Early Tomato Molecular Responses to T. evansi Attack
3.3. Early Tomato Molecular Responses to T. evansi Attack in Combination with Moderate Drought Stress
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Plant Material and Mite Rearing
4.2. Drought Stress Regime
4.3. Tomato-Spider Mite Bioassays
4.4. Plant Hormone and Metabolite Profiling
4.5. Quantification of Gene Expression via qRT-PCR
4.6. Statistical Analysis
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Arbona, V.; Ximénez-Embún, M.G.; Echavarri-Muñoz, A.; Martin-Sánchez, M.; Gómez-Cadenas, A.; Ortego, F.; González-Guzmán, M. Early Molecular Responses of Tomato to Combined Moderate Water Stress and Tomato Red Spider Mite Tetranychus evansi Attack. Plants 2020, 9, 1131. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9091131
Arbona V, Ximénez-Embún MG, Echavarri-Muñoz A, Martin-Sánchez M, Gómez-Cadenas A, Ortego F, González-Guzmán M. Early Molecular Responses of Tomato to Combined Moderate Water Stress and Tomato Red Spider Mite Tetranychus evansi Attack. Plants. 2020; 9(9):1131. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9091131
Chicago/Turabian StyleArbona, Vicent, Miguel G. Ximénez-Embún, Alberto Echavarri-Muñoz, Marcos Martin-Sánchez, Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas, Félix Ortego, and Miguel González-Guzmán. 2020. "Early Molecular Responses of Tomato to Combined Moderate Water Stress and Tomato Red Spider Mite Tetranychus evansi Attack" Plants 9, no. 9: 1131. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9091131