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Effect of Branched Broomrape (Orobanche ramosa) Infection on the Growth and Photosynthesis of Tomato

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Giovanni Mauromicale ,
Antonino Lo Monaco  and
Angela M. G. Longo
Giovanni Mauromicale*
Affiliation:
University of Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Agronomiche, Agrochimiche e delle Produzioni Animali, Via Valdisavoia, 5, Catania 95123, Italy
Antonino Lo Monaco
Affiliation:
University of Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Agronomiche, Agrochimiche e delle Produzioni Animali, Via Valdisavoia, 5, Catania 95123, Italy
Angela M. G. Longo
Affiliation:
University of Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Agronomiche, Agrochimiche e delle Produzioni Animali, Via Valdisavoia, 5, Catania 95123, Italy
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: g.mauromicale@unict.it
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Abstract

The influence of the holoparasite branched broomrape on the vegetative growth, leaf chlorophyll content, photosynthetic rate, and chlorophyll fluorescence of tomato was studied over two growing seasons on plants grown in a commercial greenhouse. The presence of the parasite strongly reduced the aerial biomass by acting as a competing sink for assimilate, but more importantly, by compromising the efficiency of carbon assimilation via a reduction in leaf chlorophyll content and photosynthetic rate. The chlorophyll fluorescence parameters F0, Fm, Fv, and Fv/Fm were all altered in parasitized plants, indicating that branched broomrape–infected plants are more susceptible to photoinhibition. The degree of damage to the host was not dependent on either the number or the biomass of parasitic plants per host plant. We suggest that the ability to maintain a high photosynthetic rate, leaf chlorophyll content, or both and the ability to minimize photoinhibition can be developed as indirect assays for improved tolerance to branched broomrape.

Keywords

Branched broomrape, Orobanche ramosa L. ORARMtomato, Solanum lycopersicum L. ‘Ikram’Parasitic planthost developmentchlorophyll contentchlorophyll fluorescence
Type
Weed Management
Information
Weed Science , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 574 - 581
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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