Salicylic acid, active oxygen species and systemic acquired resistance in plants
1Waksman Institute and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, PO Box 759, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA.
Abstract:
Infection of plants, particularly by a necrotizing pathogen, usually induces a long-lasting, broad-based, systemic resistance to secondary pathogen attack. Many studies implicate salicylic acid as an essential signal in the development of such systemic acquired resistance in several plant species. Salicylic acid appears to mediate plant defence by binding to and inhibiting catalase, thus increasing the concentration of H(2)O(2) and other active oxygen species. Active oxygen species may then act as second messengers that induce plant defence gene expression, analogous to their activation of gene expression in mammalian cells.
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