Ouellette GB, Charest PM, Chamberland H. A review of ultrastructural and ultracytochemical studies of infection processes in some plant wilt diseases: the opaque matter extensively involved, its links with pathogen elements, insights into its nature.
MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, MICROBEAM ANALYSIS SOCIETY, MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 2011;
17:137-155. [PMID:
21288372 DOI:
10.1017/s1431927610094407]
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Abstract
The present review is based on results of several years of investigation on the pathogenesis of plant wilt diseases using for one of the main aspects, several labeling techniques at the ultrastructural level: autoradiography with (3)H-thymidine; gold-tagged lectins, enzymes, polyclonal, and monoclonal antibodies. Thus, opaque matter (OM), labeling for DNA with the appropriate markers, can be abundant in and associated with host tissue reactions and pronounced alterations (particularly in newly differentiated xylem). The presence of structures (called P-elements) in OM, paralleled by a similar occurrence in nuclei of both the host and pathogen cells, is considered as being also indicative of a cytoplasmic nature for this OM and most likely originating from fungal elements.
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