title: Plant immune responses triggered by beneficial microbes.
abstract: Beneficial soil-borne microorganisms, such as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and mycorrhizal fungi, can improve plant performance by inducing systemic defense responses that confer broad-spectrum resistance to plant pathogens and even insect herbivores. Different beneficial microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) are recognized by the plant, which results in a mild, but effective activation of the plant immune responses in systemic tissues. Evidence is accumulating that systemic resistance induced by different beneficials is regulated by similar jasmonate-dependent and ethylene-dependent signaling pathways and is associated with priming for enhanced defense.
authors.affiliation: Plant-Microbe Interactions, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 800.56, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Saskia C M
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Van Wees
authors.forename: Sjoerd
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Van der Ent
authors.forename: Corné M J
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Pieterse
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000276:immunology*; D005658:Fungi / Q000276:immunology*; D007109:Immunity; D010944:Plants / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D019655:Quantitative Trait, Heritable; D015398:Signal Transduction