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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (25): 103-112.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2023-0605

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Influence Mechanisms of Pine Needle Extracts on Tea Plant Growth and Pest Control

ZHANG Man(), LI Jianlong, ZHOU Bo, CHEN Yiyong, NONG Hongqiu, CUI Yingying, LIU Jiayu, TANG Jinchi()   

  1. Tea Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Resources Innovation and Utilization, Guangzhou 510640
  • Received:2023-08-22 Revised:2024-04-27 Online:2024-09-05 Published:2024-08-27

Abstract:

In order to explore the effect of pine needle extracts on tea plant growth and pest control, tea trees treated with and without pine needle extracts were used as experiment materials, and the combined transcriptome and metabolome analysis was conducted to analyze the internal mechanism. The results showed that pine needle extracts could promote the growth of tea plants, with the increasing germination density, the relative content of chlorophyll in tea plant leaves, and the yield of tea without reducing the quality of tea. In this process, the expression of AP2/ERF transcription factors was suppressed, and ethylene signaling pathway played an important role of negative regulator. Besides, pine needle extracts treatments did not affect the community structure of arthropods of tea plants, and displayed a certain control effect on mites and tea green leafhoppers. The combined analysis of transcriptome and metabolome showed that the improvement of insect resistance of tea plant might be due to the activation of polyphenol and phospholipid metabolic pathways of tea plants, and the contents of corresponding metabolites were significantly increased. Thus, the antioxidant and free radical scavenging ability of tea plants were improved, so as to enhance the stress resistance of tea plants. In general, the results can provide a basis for the development and utilization of natural plant stress inducers.

Key words: pine needle extracts, Camellia sinensis, ethylene signaling pathway, polyphenols, antioxidant, pest management, transcriptomics, metabolomics, plant resistance inducers