Host-pathogen interactions in plants. Plants, when exposed to oligosaccharides of fungal origin, defend themselves by accumulating antibiotics.
Year: 1978
Type: article
Abstract: oligosaccharides 9 elicitors cell walls plant pathogens Plants are exposed to attack by an immense array of microorganisms, yet are resistant to almost all of these potential pests. Many plants respond to an invasion by a pathogenic or nonpathogenic microorganism, whether a fungus, a bacterium or a virus, by accumulating phytoalexins, low molecular weight compounds which inhibit the growth of microorganisms. Phytoalexins are probably also toxic to higher animal and plant cells (38). The production of phytoalexins appears to be a widespread mechanism by which plants attempt to defend themselves against microbes and, perhaps,
Source: The Journal of Cell Biology
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.78.3.627
Authors: P Albersheim, B S Valent
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2167716288