Priming: getting ready for battle

Uwe Conrath, Gerold J.M. Beckers, Victor Flors, Pilar García-Agustín, Gábor Jakab, Felix Mauch, Mari-Anne Newman, Corné M.J. Pieterse, Benoit Poinssot, María J. Pozo, Alain Pugin, Ulrich Schaffrath, Jurriaan Ton, David Wendehenne, Laurent Zimmerli, Birgitte Mauch-Mani

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    Abstract

    Infection of plants by necrotizing pathogens or colonization of plant roots with certain beneficial microbes causes the induction of a unique physiological state called "priming." The primed state can also be induced by treatment of plants with various natural and synthetic compounds. Primed plants display either faster, stronger, or both activation of the various cellular defense responses that are induced following attack by either pathogens or insects or in response to abiotic stress. Although the phenomenon has been known for decades, most progress in our understanding of priming has been made over the past few years. Here, we summarize the current knowledge of priming in various induced-resistance phenomena in plants
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalMolecular Plant - Microbe Interactions
    Volume19
    Issue number10
    Pages (from-to)1062-1071
    Number of pages10
    ISSN0894-0282
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

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