Carrageenans from red seaweeds as promoters of growth and elicitors of defense response in plants

Plants incessantly encounter abiotic and biotic stresses that limit their growth and productivity. However, conversely, plant growth can also be induced by treatments with various abiotic and biotic elicitors. Carrageenans are sulfated linear polysaccharides that represent major cellular constituent...

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Main Authors: Pushp Sheel Shukla, Tudor eBorza, Alan T Critchley, Balakrishnan ePrithiviraj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2016.00081/full