Role of Abscisic Acid in Disease Resistance

Signal Crosstalk in Plant Stress Responses

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-22

  Flors, Victor ^a   Ton, Jurriaan ^b   Mauch Mani, Brigitte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ABA in mediating Arabidopsis necrotrophic fungus interactions; ABA linked to ROS production; Abscisic acid (ABA) role in disease resistance; Auxin and auxin dependent processes in plant pathogen interaction; BABA induced resistance (BABA IR) and A. brassicicola and P. cucumerina; Biotic and abiotic stress regulation interactions; Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon role in genome reorganization; Positive correlation between ABA and disease resistance; SA, JA, and ET in signal transduction pathways in plant defense; Signal cross talk in plant stress responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054111012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813805931.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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