title: Priming for stress resistance: from the lab to the field.
abstract: Upon treatment with necrotizing pathogens, many plants develop an enhanced capacity for activating defense responses to biotic and abiotic stress--a process called priming. The primed state can also be induced by colonization of plant roots with beneficial micro-organisms or by treatment of plants with various natural and synthetic compounds. Priming is thought to be the mechanism by which plants can show induced resistance against ostensibly virulent pathogens after a conditioning treatment. Although the phenomenon has been known for years, it has been appreciated just recently that priming for enhanced defense responses can result from plant-plant communication in nature and that priming can also boost the resistance of crops to biotic and abiotic stresses in the field.
authors.affiliation: Plant Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Group, Department of Plant Physiology, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerold J M
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Beckers
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Conrath
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000639:trends; D004777:Environment; D005659:Fungicides, Industrial / Q000494:pharmacology; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D010944:Plants / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D005659:Fungicides, Industrial