Eudesmanolides from Wedelia trilobata (L.) Hitchc. as potential inducers of plant systemic acquired resistance

  • J Agric Food Chem. 2013 Apr 24;61(16):3884-90. doi: 10.1021/jf400390e.
Yating Li  1 Xiaojiang Hao Shifei Li Hongping He Xiaohui Yan Yongdui Chen Jiahong Dong Zhongkai Zhang Shunlin Li
Affiliations
  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
Abstract

Ten eudesmanolides (1-10) including five new ones (1-4 and 6) were isolated from the whole plant of Wedelia trilobata (L.) Hitchc., a notoriously invasive weed in South China. As main constituents of W. trilobata, eight of these eudesmanolides were tested for their antitobacco mosaic virus (TMV) activities by the conventional half-leaf and leaf-disk method along with Western blot analysis. All of the tested compounds, at 10 μg/mL, showed strong Antiviral activities in the pretreated tobacco Plants with inhibition rates ranging from 46.7% to 76.5%, significantly higher than that of the positive control, ningnanmycin (13.5%). Their potential of inducing systemic acquired resistance (SAR) was also evaluated, and compounds 1 and 8 showed excellent induction activities. Furthermore, it was found that different concentrations of compound 1 promoted phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) activity in tobacco Plants. To our knowledge, this is the first report that eudesmanolides could induce resistance in tobacco Plants against the viral pathogen TMV.

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