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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2016, Vol. 15 Issue (3): 702-704    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(15)61156-X
Special Issue: 线虫合辑Nematology
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Assaying the potential of twenty-one legume plants in Medicago truncatula and M. sativa for candidate model plants for investigation the interactions with Heterodera glycines
 KONG Ling-an, WU Du-qing, HUANG Wen-kun, PENG Huan, HE Wen-ting, PENG De-liang
State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R.China
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摘要  Soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines is one of the most serious soil-borne pathogens in soybean production. However, the researches were limited in China due to lack of an effective pathosystem. In this study, we screened 21 legume Medicago plants in both Medicago truncatula and Medicago sativa to obtain candidate model plants for establishing a new pathosystem for legume-H. glycines interactions. The nematode infection of tested plants was assayed with Race 3 and 4 respectively, which were two dominant H. glycines inbred races in China soybean producing areas. The results showed that the model legume plant M. truncatula A17 failed to allow Race 3 of H. glycines to complete its life cycle, in contrast, it provided the Race 4 population to form several cyst nematodes, however, the female index (FI) value was approximately 1.6. Three M. sativa cultivars, including Xunlu, Aergangjin and Junren, provided either Race 3 or 4 of H. glycines to develop into mature cysts with their FI value below 5 as well. Our results demonstrated that legume plants in both M. truncatula and M. sativa were not likely to be a model plant for H. glycines because of an extreme high resistance.

Abstract  Soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines is one of the most serious soil-borne pathogens in soybean production. However, the researches were limited in China due to lack of an effective pathosystem. In this study, we screened 21 legume Medicago plants in both Medicago truncatula and Medicago sativa to obtain candidate model plants for establishing a new pathosystem for legume-H. glycines interactions. The nematode infection of tested plants was assayed with Race 3 and 4 respectively, which were two dominant H. glycines inbred races in China soybean producing areas. The results showed that the model legume plant M. truncatula A17 failed to allow Race 3 of H. glycines to complete its life cycle, in contrast, it provided the Race 4 population to form several cyst nematodes, however, the female index (FI) value was approximately 1.6. Three M. sativa cultivars, including Xunlu, Aergangjin and Junren, provided either Race 3 or 4 of H. glycines to develop into mature cysts with their FI value below 5 as well. Our results demonstrated that legume plants in both M. truncatula and M. sativa were not likely to be a model plant for H. glycines because of an extreme high resistance.
Keywords:  soybean cyst nematode       alfalfa       life cycle       female index       pathosystem  
Received: 15 May 2015   Accepted:
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This project is supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31301645, 31171827) and the National 973 Program of China (2013CB127502). We gratefully acknowledged Prof. John Jones from James Hutton Institute (UK) for critical revision of the manuscript, Prof. Tao Wang (China Agricultural University), and Dr. Lei Liu (Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science) for providing M. truncatula A17, and 20 M. sativa cultivars, respectively.

Corresponding Authors:  PENG De-liang, Tel: +86-10-62815611,E-mail: dlpeng@ippcaas.cn     E-mail:  dlpeng@ippcaas.cn
About author:  KONG Ling-an, E-mail: lakong@ippcaas.cn;

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