Disease development of several fungi on Arabidopsis can be reduced by treatment with methyl jasmonate

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 421-427

  Thomma, Bart P H J ^a   Eggermont, Kristel ^a   Broekaert, Willem F ^a,c   Cammue, Bruno P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c CropDesign NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alternaria; Botrytis; Ethylene; Jasmonate; Plectosphaerella; Salicylic acid

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; PLECTOSPHAERELLA CUCUMERINA;

EID: 0034194792     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0981-9428(00)00756-7     Document Type: Article

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