Molecular effects of resistance elicitors from biological origin and their potential for crop protection

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Wiesel, Lea ^a   Newton, Adrian C ^a   Elliott, Ian ^b   Booty, David ^b   Gilroy, Eleanor M ^a   Birch, Paul R J ^a   Hein, Ingo ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b OMEX Agriculture Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crop protection; Disease resistance; Elicitors; Pathogen effectors; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979934582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00655     Document Type: Review

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