Abstract
Pathogen infection represents the greatest challenge to agricultural crop production, resulting in significant economic loss. Conventional pesticides are used to control such infection but can result in antimicrobial resistance and detrimental effects on the plant, environment, and human health. Due to nitric oxide's (NO) endogenous roles in plant immune responses, treatment with exogenous NO represents an attractive nonpesticide approach for eradicating plant pathogens. In this work, the antimicrobial activity of small-molecule NO donors of varying NO-release kinetics was evaluated against Pseudomonas syringae and Botrytis cinerea, two prevalent plant pathogens. Intermediate NO-release kinetics proved to be most effective at eradicating these pathogens in vitro. A selected NO donor (methyl tris diazeniumdiolate; MD3) was capable of treating both bacterial infection of plant leaves and fungal infection of tomato fruit without exerting toxicity to earthworms. Taken together, these results demonstrate the potential for utilizing NO as a broad-spectrum, environmentally safe pesticide and may guide development of other NO donors for such application.
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