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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-10-23
pubmed:abstractText
Plants defend themselves against pathogen attack by activating a whole set of defense responses, most of them relying on transcriptional activation of plant defense genes. The same responses are induced by treatment of plant cells with elicitors released from the pathogen or from the plant surface. Several plant/elicitor combinations have been used successfully as experimental systems to investigate the molecular basis of plant defense responses. Receptor-like structures on the plasma membrane of plant cells appear to bind the elicitors. Thereby, intracellular signal transduction chains are initiated which finally result in the activation of plant defense genes. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of early processes in plant defense responses, as provided by these studies, may in the long term help to develop environmentally safe plant protection methods for agriculture.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0939-5075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
569-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Elicitor recognition and signal transduction in plant defense gene activation.
pubmed:affiliation
Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't