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Chinese Journal of Tropical Crops ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (12): 2515-2526.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-2561.2022.12.014

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Antifungal Activity of 13 Phenylpropanoid Metabolites Against Six Colletotrichum Species

WU Pengpeng1, AN Wei2, XU Yunfeng1, LUO Lijuan1, JIANG Lingyan1,*()   

  1. 1. College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University / Key Laboratory of Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Biological Resources of Hainan Province, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
    2. College of Life Science, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
  • Received:2022-01-27 Revised:2022-03-26 Online:2022-12-25 Published:2023-01-12
  • Contact: JIANG Lingyan

Abstract:

Colletotrichum is a fungal pathogen which causes a destructive disease called anthracnose and affects a wide range of tropical crop plants. Development of green pesticide is important for the prevention and control of anthracnose disease. Early transcriptome and metabolome studies of stylo (Stylosanthes spp.) have shown that the phenylpropanoid metabolic pathway is significantly up-regulated in response to Colletotrichum infection. In this study, an in vitro antifungal test was used to determine the inhibitory effects of 13 phenylpropanoid metabolites on the mycelial growth of six Colletotrichum species, including stylo C. gloeosporioides, rubber C. gloeosporioides, rubber C. acutatum, yam C. gloeosporioides, mango C. gloeosporioides and papaya C. gloeosporioides. The metabolites with higher inhibitory effects and the pairwise combinations were used to test the activity on the inhibition of the mycelial growth of six Colletotrichum species. In addition, the effects on conidial germination of five Colletotrichum species were also examined using the metabolites and their pairwise combinations. The results showed that 13 metabolites displayed different inhibitory effects on the six Colletotrichum species. Among all the tested metabolites, pterostilbene had the best inhibitory effect on the mycelial growth of the six Colletotrichum species at both 500 μmol/L and 1000 μmol/L. The inhibition rates of pterostilbene ranged from 47.47% to 80.74% at 1000 μmol/L. Phloretin and coumarin also showed inhibitory effects on the mycelial growth of the six Colletotrichum species at a 1000 μmol/L, but the rest nine metabolites did not show significant inhibitory effects. Then, pterostilbene, phloretin, coumarin, ferulic acid, naringin, resveratrol were combined in pair to test the effects on the mycelial growth and conidial germination of the six Colletotrichum. The results showed the combinations containing pterostilbene had a significant inhibitory effect on the mycelial growth of the six Colletotrichum species, and the inhibition rates ranging from 31.07% to 89.05%. For the conidial germination, pterostilbene and its combinations showed a significant inhibitory effect on five Colletotrichum. Therefore, the IC50 values of pterostilbene and its combinations on conidial germination of five Colletotrichum species were determined. Overall, the metabolites or combinations with best inhibition effects on stylo C. gloeosporioides, rubber C. gloeosporioides, rubber C. acutatum, mango C. gloeosporioides and papaya C. gloeosporioides were pterostilbene+phloretin, pterostilbene+ferulic acid, pterostilbene+ferulic acid, pterostilbene+phloretin and pterostilbene with IC50 values of 293.475 μmol/L, 67.660 μmol/L, 184.764 μmol/L, 108.671 μmol/L and 68.417 μmol/L, respectively. The metabolites and its combination identified from this study could provide candidates for further development of green pesticide.

Key words: phenylpropanoid metabolite, Colletotrichum, antifungal activity

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