Two pathways act in an additive rather than obligatorily synergistic fashion to induce systemic acquired resistance and <it>PR</it> gene expression

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Local infection with necrotizing pathogens induces whole plant immunity to secondary challenge. Pathogenesis-related genes are induced in parallel with this systemic acquired resistance response and thought to be co-regulated. The hy...

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Main Authors: Shapiro Allan D, Zhang Chu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2002-10-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/2/9