Cytochemical studies on Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in a compatible wheat host. II. Haustorium mother cell walls at the host cell penetration site, haustorial walls, and the extrahaustorial matrix
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Botany
- Vol. 64 (11), 2561-2575
- https://doi.org/10.1139/b86-339
Abstract
Various cytochemical tests on the wheat stem rust fungus were used to determine differences in components of the walls of the haustorium mother cell at the host cell penetration site and the haustorial neck and body and to describe some of the chemical properties of the extrahaustorial matrix. There were two transition zones with respect to wall composition. The first was at the host cell penetration site; chitin, present in haustorium mother cell walls, was not detected in haustorial neck walls. The second transition zone was at the neck ring; compared with walls of the proximal neck region, those distal to the neck ring contained more protein and lost much of their periodate – thiocarbohydrazide – silver proteinate reactive material and all concanavalin A binding material after treatment with protease. The two wall layers of the distal part of the haustorial neck were continuous with those of the haustorium; the wall layers of young haustorial bodies shared their staining properties and lectin affinities with those of the distal part of the haustorial necks, reflecting their common origin. As the haustoria matured, their body walls bound wheat germ lectin, but the neck walls did not. Tests indicated that polysaccharide and glycoprotein were present in the extrahaustorial matrix.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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