A synergism between oxalic acid and polygalacturonases in the depolymerization of potato tuber tissue

✍ Scribed by A. C. Amadioha

• Book ID: 104749967
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 183 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-0972
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00386304

✦ Synopsis

Rhizoctonia

bataticola produced oxalic acid in vitro and in viva during pathogenesis of potato tuber. Polygalacturonase (PG) was also detected in culture filtrates of the rot-causing organism. Levels of maceration and cell death in tuber tissue were higher when a mixture of oxalic acid and PG was used than when either oxalic acid or PG were used alone.