title: Nonhost resistance and nonspecific plant defenses.
abstract: In the past year, most of the advances in our understanding of nonhost resistance to plant pathogens have been incremental. Highlights include the discovery of a general bacterial elicitor of plant defenses, the description of more similarities between the hypersensitive response and animal programmed cell death, and a growing appreciation of the cell wall as the site of initiation and expression of nonhost resistance towards fungi.
authors.affiliation: Botany Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3B2, Canada. Heath@botany.utoronto.ca
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Heath
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D005658:Fungi / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D059828:Plant Cells; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology*; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013045:Species Specificity