%0 Journal Article
%T Oxalate-induced resistance of muskmelon to WMV-2
%A Guangyu Zheng
%A Rongle Zhao
%A Xu Peng
%J Chinese Science Bulletin
%@ 1861-9541
%D 1999
%I 
%R 10.1007/BF02886161
%X The treatment of muskmelon cultivar ˇ°Wangwenxiangˇ±, which is sensitive to watermelon mosaic virus-2 (WMV-2), with oxalate increases systemic resistance of the cultivar to WMV-2 significantly. The challenge inoculation experiments indicate that the symptom of oxalate-treated plant is much slighter than that of control plants and the virus content is only 4% of that of control plants. The peroxidase activity of oxalate-treated plant is six times of that of control plants; three new isoperoxidases are induced and lignin content increases by 82.9%. These results indicate that oxalate induces systemic resistance of muskmelon to WMV-2 while it induces increase of peroxidase activity.
%K oxalate
%K muskmelon
%K watermelon mosaic virus-2
%K inductive resistance
%U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02886161