Chemical warfare or modulators of defence responses - the function of secondary metabolites in plant immunity.
Curr Opin Plant Biol
; 15(4): 407-14, 2012 Aug.
Article
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| ID: mdl-22445190
ABSTRACT
In plants, a host's responses to an attempted infection include activation of various secondary metabolite pathways, some of which are specific for particular plant phylogenetic clades. Phytochemicals that represent respective end products in plant immunity have been stereotypically linked to antimicrobial properties. However, in many cases, owing to the lack of unequivocal evidence for direct antibiotic action in planta, alternative functions of secondary metabolites should be considered. Correspondingly, recent findings have identified novel, and rather unexpected, functions of phytochemicals in plant immunity that mediate regulatory pathways for conserved defence responses. It also seems likely that these conserved responses can be regulated by clade-specific phytochemicals.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Plantas
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Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno
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Imunidade Vegetal
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Anti-Infecciosos
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Curr Opin Plant Biol
Assunto da revista:
BOTANICA
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Polônia