Disease resistance in plants: The road to phytoalexins and beyond
Journal Title: Ecocycles - Year 2019, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper summarizes the views of the authors on the roles specific metabolites play in the resistance of plants against bacterial and fungal diseases. Pesticidal specific plant metabolites may be synthesized in plant tissues constitutively (phytoanticipins) or in response to microbial infections (phytoalexins). This paper identifies certain key steps in the discovery of phytoalexins and touches upon the current state of phytoalexin research.
Authors and Affiliations
Tamas Komives
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP608502
- DOI 10.19040/ecocycles.v5i1.132
- Views 111
- Downloads 0
How mushrooms tend to break through the evolutionary dead end
Genes, genetics, genomics, and the roles of mushrooms and toadstools in the global carbon cycle (GCC) are reviewed here. The literature survey is a tribute to the contributions made by Hungary and Hungarian scientists t...
Aquaponics business in Europe: some legal obstacles and solutions
Aquaponics is a rapidly emerging agricultural practice, which combines recirculating aquaculture systems (the RAS technology) with the soil-less (hydroponic) cultivation of vegetables. The advantages in terms of producti...
Oenotourism and conservation: a holistic approach to special interest tourism from a cultural heritage perspective – the Azienda Agricola Model
In wine producing countries viticultural and oenological practices and traditions, trades and crafts, the built and written heritage, the history, social structures, economy, a number of intangible values and the viticul...
Novel fungal consortium pretreatment of waste oat straw to enhance economical and efficient biohydrogen production
Bio-pretreatment using a fungal consortium to enhance the efficiency of lignocellulosic biohydrogen production was explored. A fungal consortium comprised of T. viride and P. chrysosporium as microbial inoculum was comp...
Importance of nickel as a nutrient in aquaponic systems - some theoretical considerations
This paper calls the attention to the important role the microelement nickel plays is the decomposition of urea (produced by the fish as waste), and thus to its potential role in aquaponic systems. Since nickel is not in...