Comparison of Chlorophyll and Carotenoid Concentrations Among Russian Wheat Aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae)-Infested Wheat Isolines

Impact of scale insect infestation on the content of photosynthetic pigments and chlorophyll fluorescence in two host plant species

“…As observed by Anderson et al (1995), these changes often have been regarded as a relatively late mechanism of photosynthetic adaptation. Dai et al (2009) (Linderman) damage, while Heng-Moss et al (2003) stated that the total chlorophyll and carotenoid concentrations differed among Betta wheat isolines in response to aphid feeding. Rafi et al (1996) reported that susceptible plants have similar chlorophyll concentration levels as their respective non-infested plants after exposure to Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko), whereas resistant plants infested with D. noxia had reduced levels of chlorophyll when compared with non-infested plants.…”

“…The chlorophyll content in plant tissue is one of the primary parameters involved in the interactions between host plants and insects. Chlorophyll levels change during plant development, and nutritional deficiencies occur in response to a wide variety of stresses including biotic stresses such as insect feeding and pathogen infections (Ni et al 2001(Ni et al , 2002Heng-Moss et al 2003;Goławska et al 2010). These changes can be helpful for investigating plants' resistance mechanisms and allow exploration of using photosynthetic pigments as markers for identifying different kinds of chlorosis-causing insects.…”

Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Resistant and Susceptible Wheat to Injury by Russian Wheat Aphid

“…After an extended period of infestation, resistant plants may exhibit losses in chlorophyll (Miller et al 1994), but chlorophyll loss is not as great as in susceptible cultivars (Heng-Moss et al 2003, Wang et al 2004). Interestingly, in this study there were no signiÞcant differences in chlorophyll concentration between infested and control plants for the susceptible cultivar.…”

Chlorophyll Content of Aphid-Infested Seedling Leaves of Fifteen Maize Genotypes

“…Many studies have shown that aphid infestation can trigger severe Chl breakdown within the host. An imbalance between biosynthesis and catabolic turnover of green pigments in plant tissues indicates profound inhibition of photosynthesis process (Heng-Moss et al, 2003;Smith et al, 2005;Botha et al, 2006;Diaz-Montano et al, 2007;Goławska et al, 2010). Portable leaf-clip-type chlorophyll meters perform rapid, repetitive and nondestructive estimates of Chl concentrations in living plants (Hawkins et al, 2009;Jinwen et al, 2009;Coste et al, 2010;Gholizadeh et al, 2011;Shrestha et al, 2012;Ghosh et al, 2013).…”