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Mineral composition of beetroot treated with potential elicitors and inoculated with Meloidogyne javanica

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Abstract

Background

The root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica can infect beetroots, causing extensive damage to this food crop. As chemical and genetic control tactics have shown limited efficacy, new strategies are needed to improve the integrated management of this parasite. This study assessed the influence of potential defence elicitors and M. javanica infection on the mineral composition of beetroot. Plants were treated with acibenzolar-S-methyl (ASM), citrus biomass, or a mannanoligosaccharide-based product (MOS) and inoculated with 1000 eggs and second-stage juveniles of M. javanica. At 60 days after inoculation, beetroot plants were harvested and evaluated for nematode population density, vegetative growth, and mineral content.

Results

All potential elicitors reduced nematode population density in beetroots (p ≤ 0.10) and improved the vegetative parameters of inoculated plants (p ≤ 0.05), except shoot fresh weight. Some minerals were found to be negatively affected by treatments, particularly calcium, whose levels were consistently lower in treated plants. On the other hand, M. javanica inoculation increased magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, and copper contents in beetroots. However, the latter mineral (Cu content) of inoculated plants was positively influenced by MOS and ASM.

Conclusion

Potential elicitor treatments did not improve the mineral composition of beetroot, but were effective in reducing nematode population density. Plants inoculated with M. javanica had higher mineral levels. However, gall formation decreases the commercial value of the crop and might render it unsuitable for commercialisation. M. javanica-infected beetroots may be used for nutrient extraction or sold to food processing industries.

Background

Beetroot (Beta vulgaris L.) is a highly nutritious vegetable consumed around the world, whether fresh, minimally processed, canned, or as part of baby food and supplements [23]. The taproot is rich in health-promoting bioactive compounds [6] and minerals such as potassium (K), sodium (Na), phosphorus (P), calcium (Ca), and iron (Fe) [32]. Macro- and micronutrients present in beetroots are responsible for plant growth and development [10] and also play an important role as dietary nutrients, contributing to health promotion and disease prevention in humans [12].

Nutrient absorption and accumulation in plants can be compromised by abiotic and biotic factors, including nematode infection. Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are among the most destructive plant parasites, and within the genus, Meloidogyne javanica (Treub) Chitwood and M. incognita (Kofoid & White) Chitwood are especially damaging to beetroot crops. The main symptom of nematode infection is the presence of root galls, derived from complex physiological and biochemical changes caused by parasitism. Such changes lead to cell hypertrophy and hyperplasia, compromising water and nutrient absorption by roots and consequently impairing plant growth and yield [15]. However, the extent to which nematode infection affects macro- and micronutrient absorption varies according to nematode sex, inoculum level, and host age [20]. Although infected plants generally show symptoms of nutritional deficiency, an increase in Ca content was observed in potatoes infected with cyst nematodes (Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) [11].

In this context, some environmentally friendly practices that improve the nutritional status of the plant, can favour the vegetative development and, consequently, minimise the damage caused by pathogens, allowing greater absorption of nutrients and gain in productivity [4, 5, 16]. Furthermore, due to the recent restrictions on the use of chemical nematicides and the lack of effective alternatives for nematode control, extensive research has been conducted in an effort to find novel control strategies. Induction of plant resistance to pathogens by application of inductors is gaining attention. This strategy is used to stimulate latent defence responses in plants against nematode penetration and multiplication [5, 8], such as activation of defence enzymes (e.g. catalase, peroxidase, and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase), phenol accumulation, and lignin synthesis. However, few studies have investigated the effects of elicitor treatments on the mineral concentration of food crops infected with nematodes. The current study aimed to assess the mineral composition of beetroot inoculated with M. javanica and treated potential elicitors of plant defence.

Methods

Greenhouse experiment

The experiment was conducted from January to March 2017 in a greenhouse (23°47′ 34.5″ S 53° 15′ 22.1″ W, 430 m elevation) at the Laboratory of Nematology of the State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. The experimental arrangement was Completely Randomised Design in factorial scheme 4 × 2 (three potential elicitors and water as control; with or without nematode inoculation). Five replications were used for analysing nematode parameters and three for determining mineral composition.

Seeds of hybrid ‘Kestrel’ beetroot (Sakata Seed Sudamérica Ltd., Brazil) were sown in polypropylene trays containing potting substrate (Bioplant, Brazil). At 15 days after sowing, seedlings were treated with the potential inductors or water (control). Three products were used: Agro-Mos® (MOS), a commercial product containing phosphorylated mannanoligosaccharides from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 28.04 g L−1 sulphur (S), 36.90 g L−1 copper (Cu), and 24.60 g L−1 zinc (Zn) (Alltech Crop Science, Brazil); Ecolife® (citrus biomass), a commercial product containing 108.3 g L−1 organic carbon, 1.71 g L−1 boron (B), polyols, and carboxylic acids (Quinabra Brazilian Natural Chemistry Ltd., Brazil); and Bion® 500 WG (acibenzolar-S-methyl, ASM, 500 g kg−1; Syngenta, Brazil). MOS, citrus biomass, and ASM were applied at the manufacturers’ recommended doses (0.5 g L−1, 2.0 mL L−1, and 1.5 mL L−1, respectively) by spraying the leaves to the point of runoff. Treatments were reapplied 25 days later, in order to simulate what is done by farmers in the field.

Five days after the first treatment, the seedlings were transplanted, one per pot, into pots containing 2.8 L of a previously autoclaved (2 h, 120 °C) mixture of sandy soil, potting substrate, and sand (2:1:1 v/v/v). Then, plants were inoculated with 1000 M. javanica eggs and second-stage juveniles (J2). The inoculum was obtained from a single-species population of M. javanica maintained on tomato. Nematodes were extracted by a standard procedure [1], and the nematode suspension was calibrated to 1000 eggs + J2 mL−1 using a nematode counting slide under an optical microscope. The inoculum was pipetted into four 3-cm deep, equidistant holes made in the soil surrounding each plant. Treated uninoculated plants were used as negative control.

Determination of nematode population density

At 60 days after inoculation, the plants were removed from the pots and separated into shoots and roots. The root system was then thoroughly washed under running water to remove excess soil. Then, tuberous roots were peeled off to remove bark layers of approximately 3 mm of thickness. These and the secondary roots were weighed and subjected to nematode extraction according to a standard procedure [1]. The number of nematodes g−1 root was also calculated.

Determination of vegetative parameters

Shoot height, expressed in centimetres, was measured with a millimetre ruler. Shoot and root fresh weights, expressed in grammes, were determined using a semi-analytical balance. Shoot dry weight, expressed in grammes, was measured by placing shoot samples in paper bags and incubating the bags in a forced-air oven at 65 °C until constant weight was reached (72 h).

Determination of mineral composition

Beetroots were grated, oven-dried at 70 °C to constant weight, ground using a Wiley knife mill, sieved through 20-mesh (0.841 mm) sieves, and stored in glass jars until mineral extraction and determination.

Nitrogen (N) content was determined by sulphuric acid digestion, followed by distillation in the presence of salts and catalysts and titration [19]. For determination of P, K, Ca, Fe, S, Cu, Zn, magnesium (Mg), and manganese (Mn) contents, samples were subjected to nitric and perchloric acid extraction followed by analysis by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy using the appropriate hollow-cathode lamp for each element [19]. Prior to B determination, the dried samples were ashed in a muffle furnace. Then, B contents were measured spectrophotometrically using azomethine H. Mineral contents are expressed on a dry basis.

Data analysis

Data were subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) at the 5 and 10% levels of significance, followed by Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) test for the factor elicitor treatment while for the nematode inoculation the means were differed by T test. All statistical analyses were performed using Sisvar software version 5.6.

Results

Nematode population density

Plants were inoculated with 1000 eggs + J2 of M. javanica and treated with potential defence elicitors. MOS, citrus biomass, and ASM treatments reduced (p = 0.1002) nematode population density in the roots of beetroot plants by 47.71, 42.84, and 39.47%, respectively, compared with the control (Fig. 1). However, visually, there were galls on all plants, regardless of treatment.

Fig. 1
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Meloidogyne javanica population density (nematodes 10 g−1 root) in beetroots treated with potential defence elicitors. Different letters indicate significant differences between treatments (Fisher’s least significant difference test, p ≤ 0.10)

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Vegetative development

The factors elicitors and inoculation showed significant (p = 0.0268) interaction effects on shoot height (Table 1). Uninoculated beetroot plants treated with ASM had a lower shoot height (21.10 cm) than uninoculated plants treated with MOS or citrus biomass, which did not differ from each other or the control (25.46–27.30 cm). In inoculated plants, ASM treatment increased shoot height (28.08 cm) in relation to the control (25.06 cm) and MOS treatment (25.14 cm). In comparing uninoculated and inoculated plants, we observed that only ASM increased shoot height (by 33%).

Table 1 Vegetative parameters of beetroot plants treated with potential defence elicitors and inoculated with Meloidogyne javanica
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Interaction effects on root fresh weight were significant (p = 0.0061) (Table 1). Uninoculated plants treated with MOS or ASM had lower root fresh weight (2.23–2.76 g) than inoculated treated plants (4.08–4.26 g). The highest root fresh weight among uninoculated plants was observed in those treated with citrus biomass (3.97 g). In plants inoculated with M. javanica, all treatments increased root development in 66 to 80% in relation to the inoculated untreated control.

Elicitors, but not nematode inoculation, influenced shoot fresh weight (Fig. 2), observed that MOS (16.19 g) and ASM (16.54 g) increased (p = 0.0241) shoot fresh weight compared with the control (13.52 g).

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Effect of potential defence elicitors on the shoot fresh weight of beetroot plants. Different letters indicate significant differences between treatments (Fisher’s least significant difference test, p ≤ 0.05)

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Mineral composition

Products and inoculation had significant interaction effects on Cu content only (Table 2). However, there was a significant effect for N, Ca, Mg, Fe, and Mn contents when the factors were separately analysed. In other hand, K, S, and B contents were not affected.

Table 2 Copper content of beetroots treated with potential defence elicitors and inoculated with Meloidogyne javanica
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Cu contents were 3.4 and 2.5 times higher in inoculated plants treated with MOS and ASM, respectively, than in control plants (Table 2). Interestingly, MOS and ASM treatments combined with M. javanica inoculation increased (p = 0.0268) Cu contents 4- to 5-fold compared with uninoculated plants.

Treatment with potential elicitors altered the contents of N, Ca, Mg, Fe, and Mn in beetroots (Fig. 3). N content decreased (p = 0.0234) by about 20% with citrus biomass treatment compared with the control (Fig. 3a), but was not influenced by nematode inoculation. Potential elicitors reduced (p = 0.0396) Ca concentration (15–22%) in beetroot plants compared with the control (Fig. 3b). Mg content did not increase with application of the products (p = 0.0866) (Fig. 3c), with treated plants showing levels equal to (MOS and citrus biomass) or lower (ASM) than that of the control. A neutral or negative effect of potential elicitors on nutrient accumulation was also observed for Fe and Mn, with reductions of 40% in relation to the control in plants treated with MOS (Fig. 3d) and citrus biomass (Fig. 3e).

Fig. 3
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Effect of potential defence elicitors on the mineral content of beetroots. Fisher’s least significant difference test: a, b, and e, p ≤ 0.05; c and d, p ≤ 0.10

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Phosphorus levels were negatively influenced (p = 0.0002) by nematode inoculation (Fig. 4a), with an average of 3.70 g kg−1 and 3.04 g kg−1 for uninoculated and inoculated plants. Mg (Fig. 4b; p = 0.0002), Fe (Fig. 4c; p = 0.0018), Mn (Fig. 4d; p = 0.0002), and Zn (Fig. 4e; p = 0.0078) levels, on the other hand, were higher in plants inoculated with M. javanica than in uninoculated plants. Thus, the observed values for these nutrients were from 2.17 g kg−1 to 3.45 g kg−1 for Mg; 198.12 g kg−1 to 336.06 g kg−1 for Fe; 88.01 mg kg−1 to 163.93 mg kg−1 for Mn; and 29.74 t mg kg−1 o 37.24 mg kg−1 for Zn, considering uninoculated and inoculated plants, respectively.

Fig. 4
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Effect of Meloidogyne javanica infection on the mineral content of beetroots. Fisher’s least significant difference test: a–e, p ≤ 0.05

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Discussion

MOS, citrus biomass, and ASM were effective in reducing M. javanica population densities in the roots of beetroot plants (Table 1), but did not prevent gall formation, according to visual analysis. Such effects were exerted indirectly, because the treatments were applied by foliar spraying and had no contact with the nematode, indicating that compounds successfully induced plant resistance to nematodes.

Each product has a distinct mode of action. MOS, for instance, is composed of phosphorylated mannanoligosaccharides from S. cerevisiae cell walls. The product showed potential in the control of root-knot nematodes in lettuce, rice, and soybean, attributed to its capacity to induce plant resistance against the pathogen [21, 31, 33]. This hypothesis was confirmed in a study showing that MOS enhanced phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, catalase, peroxidase, and glucanase activities in rice infected with Meloidogyne graminicola [31]. The commercial product also contains S, Cu, and Zn, which are cofactors of various plant enzymes and influence the formation and composition of plant cell walls. The nutrients contribute to plant resistance by producing toxic substances or forming a physical barrier against nematode penetration, affecting pathogen activity [21].

Citrus extracts are known to promote the synthesis of toxic substances, such as phytoalexins [27], which explains the efficiency of citrus biomass (Ecolife) against the plant-parasitic nematode. The reducing effect of this commercial product on root lesion numbers was observed in soybean and maize [18, 25]. However, research on the efficiency of this product is still incipient. ASM, in turn, is one of the most widely used inductors for pathogen control, and its effectiveness in inducing defence responses against nematodes has been widely reported [24]. Because ASM is a salicylic acid analogue, it can activate systemic acquired resistance responses, leading to a pronounced effect on root-knot and lesion nematodes [24, 26].

Application of MOS, citrus biomass, and ASM contributed to the vegetative development of nematode-inoculated beetroot plants. These results are evidence of the sensitivity of beetroot to root-knot nematodes [7] and underscore the importance of the protective effect by resistance inducers [35]. Plant growth may also have been stimulated by the presence of nutrients in MOS and citrus biomass. Citrus biomass has a high content of organic compounds, which can positively contribute to the use of nutrients by plants [27], increasing vigour and disease resistance. As a result, plants may exhibit enhanced vegetative performance, even when inoculated (up to a certain level) with pathogens [16]. Other research has already shown the potential of resistance inducers, such as methyl salicylate, to increase the seedling emergence and plant growth in different cultivars of rice, however, with a dose-dependent effect in relation to cultivars [17]. In addition, the use of environmentally friendly bio-fertilisers, such as algae extracts, improve plant development, with an increase in germination and seedling vigour [3, 4] and in the levels of phenols and ascorbic acid [3].

The fact that uninoculated potential elicitors-treated beetroots had similar or poorer vegetative development than untreated plants can be explained by the energy expended to activate defence mechanisms. The metabolic pathways involved in plant defence responses can be activated by elicitors or pathogens, with relatively high energy costs [9]. The results show that some elicitors should be applied in the case of nematode infection, but their use should be avoided in noninfested fields.

Plant–pathogen–nutrient interaction mechanisms are complex and little understood. The nutrients assessed in the current study are essential for plant growth and development and participate in various physiological processes, such as regulatory protein synthesis, photosynthetic electron transport, mitochondrial respiration, oxidative stress responses, cell wall metabolism, and hormonal signalling [10, 19, 29]. Nutrients can also act as cofactors for enzymes associated with flavonoid and lignin synthesis [36], indispensable for physical protection against nematode penetration [10, 22, 29].

Overall, N, Ca, Mg, Fe, and Mn levels were lower in potential elicitors-treated plants, indicating that activation of defence mechanisms increases energy consumption and redirects nutrients to structural components [9]. Most of these nutrients are related to the synthesis of lignin and phytoalexins [13, 30] and are, therefore, highly consumed by a variety of metabolic pathways.

In contrast, Mg, Fe, Mn, and Zn contents were higher in plants inoculated with the nematode. A previous study showed that N and Ca accumulate in the roots and are present at lower concentrations in the shoots of soybean infected with root-knot nematodes [2]. The authors attributed these results to the increase in root weight, as also observed in the present study. Root-knot nematodes induce complex feeding sites, to which nutrients absorbed by the plant are mobilised for nematode nutrition; each feeding site acts as a nutrient drain [2, 7]. The high metabolic activity required for protein synthesis explains the high micronutrient content of inoculated plants; most of the evaluated nutrients are cofactors of enzymes that are essential for plant defence [8, 29]. Proteins may also have been transported from conductive vessels to nematode feeding sites, as observed in syncytia [7, 14]. The Cu content of inoculated plants was positively influenced by MOS and ASM, probably because of the increased root weight. Transpiration may have been increased under nematode infection, as suggested by a study showing that Ca concentrations in potato are higher under cyst nematode infection because of increased respiration rates [11].

Contrary to that observed for the other nutrients, P was found at lower concentrations in inoculated plants than in uninoculated plants. Studies have shown that P accumulates in roots or shoots depending on the level of infection [2]. It is possible that the high metabolic activity of infected plants, directed toward secondary root production and defence system activation, promoted the consumption of absorbed P. Further studies are needed to better understand the relationship between P levels and nematode infection.

It is noteworthy that the nutrient contents of nematode-infected beetroots were similar to or higher than those reported in the literature [34]. This result is important from a technical point of view. Nematode-affected beetroots are visually and texturally damaged by gall formation, which decreases their commercial value. Nevertheless, because of their high nutrient content, these vegetables can be used for extraction of minerals and pigments [28]. Beetroots are rich in betalains [6], and studies have shown that M. javanica infection does not affect the antioxidant power of beetroot [7].

Conclusions

Potential defence elicitors increased shoot fresh weight and reduced M. javanica population density in beetroot. Shoot height and root fresh weight were higher in nematode-inoculated plants. Uninoculated treated plants, however, had lower nutrient contents. Although potential elicitors reduced nematode population density, it did not prevent gall formation, a defect that decreases consumer acceptance and crop value. Nevertheless, nematode-affected beetroots may be used in the food industry as sources of betalains and nutrients.

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Abbreviations

K:

Potassium

Na:

Sodium

P:

Phosphorus

Ca:

Calcium

Fe:

Iron

MOS:

Mannanoligosaccharides

S:

Sulphur

Cu:

Copper

Zn:

Zinc

B:

Boron

ASM:

Acibenzolar-S-methyl

J2:

Second-stage juveniles

N:

Nitrogen

Mg:

Magnesium

Mn:

Manganese

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The authors thank the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) for awarding a scholarship to PJGD and the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for funding the research and granting a research productivity fellowship to CRDA.

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Débia, P.J.G., Bolanho, B.C. & Dias-Arieira, C.R. Mineral composition of beetroot treated with potential elicitors and inoculated with Meloidogyne javanica. Chem. Biol. Technol. Agric. 7, 30 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40538-020-00196-2

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