Preparing to fight back: Generation and storage of priming compounds

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Pastor, Victoria ^a   Balmer, Andrea ^a   Gamir, Jordi ^b   Flors, Victor ^b   Mauch Mani, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Induced resistance; Metabolites; Primary metabolism; Priming; aminobutyric acid (BABA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979500648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00295     Document Type: Article

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