Root knot nematode, Meloidogyne spp. causes severe yield losses in vegetable crops. Chitosan is one of the most abundant biopolymer available worldwide next to cellulose. It known have anti-nemic, anti-fungal and anti- bacterial properties. Application chitosan induces systemic resistance tomato plants against pathogens by increasing phenolic content antioxidant enzymes viz., Polyphenol oxidase...

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) are encoded by a seven-member gene family that exhibits complex patterns of differential expression during growth and differentiation. Antisense down-regulation of constitutive and induced PPO expression results in hypersusceptibility to pathogens, suggesting a critical role for PPO-mediated phenolic oxidation in plant defense. H...

polyphenol oxidase (ppo) activity varied in differentiation from hyphae to rhizomorph and croute in a. mellea. in undifferentiated hyphae there was not any ppo activity, while croute showed the highest activity. electrophoresis in the presence of sds allows the detection of intensive enzyme forms of ppo, and can also convert slower migrating enzyme forms to faster ones. some fluorescent compoun...