| Title: | Priming of plant resistance by natural compounds. Hexanoic acid as a model |
| Author(s): | Aranega-Bou P; de la OL; Finiti I; Garcia-Agustin P; Gonzalez-Bosch C; |
| Address: | "Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Universitat de Valencia, Instituto de Agroquimica y Tecnologia de Alimentos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Valencia, Spain. Grupo de Bioquimica y Biotecnologia, Area de Fisiologia Vegetal, Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y del Medio Natural, Escola Superior de Tecnologia i Ciencies Experimentals, Universitat Jaume I Castellon, Spain" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1664-462X (Print) 1664-462X (Electronic) 1664-462X (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Some alternative control strategies of currently emerging plant diseases are based on the use of resistance inducers. This review highlights the recent advances made in the characterization of natural compounds that induce resistance by a priming mechanism. These include vitamins, chitosans, oligogalacturonides, volatile organic compounds, azelaic and pipecolic acid, among others. Overall, other than providing novel disease control strategies that meet environmental regulations, natural priming agents are valuable tools to help unravel the complex mechanisms underlying the induced resistance (IR) phenomenon. The data presented in this review reflect the novel contributions made from studying these natural plant inducers, with special emphasis placed on hexanoic acid (Hx), proposed herein as a model tool for this research field. Hx is a potent natural priming agent of proven efficiency in a wide range of host plants and pathogens. It can early activate broad-spectrum defenses by inducing callose deposition and the salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) pathways. Later it can prime pathogen-specific responses according to the pathogen's lifestyle. Interestingly, Hx primes redox-related genes to produce an anti-oxidant protective effect, which might be critical for limiting the infection of necrotrophs. Our Hx-IR findings also strongly suggest that it is an attractive tool for the molecular characterization of the plant alarmed state, with the added advantage of it being a natural compound" |
| Keywords: | Botrytis cinerea hexanoic acid natural inducers oxidative stress priming vitamins; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEAranega-Bou, Paz de la O Leyva, Maria Finiti, Ivan Garcia-Agustin, Pilar Gonzalez-Bosch, Carmen eng Review Switzerland 2014/10/18 Front Plant Sci. 2014 Oct 1; 5:488. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00488. eCollection 2014" |
