Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

Conversely, lack of recognition (a compatible reaction) of such a product by the plant is characterized by pathogen virulence an ...

substrate for peroxidases. Fungal attack or elicitor application also induces SOD in several plant species or cultivars that dis ...

another PR-4 family, and omit the PR-11 family. The classification scheme of Kombrink and Somssich will be followed, as their ra ...

act against the proteolytic activity of microbe-secreted proteases as well as the proteinases found in the digestive tract of an ...

in membrane permeability [48]. It is also believed that self-toxicity to the plant cell is minimized by the presence of a proteo ...

I and class III GSTs have been shown to be inducible at the transcriptional and translational levels by var- ious environmental ...

Some aspects of defense gene expression by SA have been elucidated. Genes for transcription fac- tors, such as ethylene response ...

been found in several species of solanaceous plants. A survey of recorded systemin sequences in Gen- Bank found no examples outs ...

stress or, more commonly, “heat shock” [81]. For many temperate climate crops, temperatures in excess of 32 to 33°C constitute a ...

B. Decreased Water Status Several abiotic stresses have a common element between them, namely decreased cell water status. They ...

example, Ismail et al. [110] reported cosegregation of dehydrin alleles with chilling tolerance in cowpea seedling emergence. Co ...

synthesis have only recently been described in many species, with trehalose capacity probably present in all angiosperms [125]. ...

LOW TEMPERATURE–INDUCIBLE PROTEINS. The low temperature–inducible protein litera- ture is replete with various acronyms dependin ...

DRE because a transgenic plant constitutively expressing CBF was shown to express many DRE-con- trolled proteins and to have a g ...

further showed that a gene product they termed HOS1 acts as a negative regulator of pathway IV at an early stage and appears to ...

that the multiplicity of responses is consistent with the various aspects of ethylene in development and re- sponses to other en ...

In acidic soils, Al primarily affects root growth, and several hypotheses exist regarding the mecha- nism(s) of injury [190]. Pl ...

duction of competence for elicitation of defense responses in cucumber hypocotyls, suggesting the need to regulate the amount of ...

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