title: Hormonal modulation of plant immunity.
abstract: Plant hormones have pivotal roles in the regulation of plant growth, development, and reproduction. Additionally, they emerged as cellular signal molecules with key functions in the regulation of immune responses to microbial pathogens, insect herbivores, and beneficial microbes. Their signaling pathways are interconnected in a complex network, which provides plants with an enormous regulatory potential to rapidly adapt to their biotic environment and to utilize their limited resources for growth and survival in a cost-efficient manner. Plants activate their immune system to counteract attack by pathogens or herbivorous insects. Intriguingly, successful plant enemies evolved ingenious mechanisms to rewire the plant's hormone signaling circuitry to suppress or evade host immunity. Evidence is emerging that beneficial root-inhabiting microbes also hijack the hormone-regulated immune signaling network to establish a prolonged mutualistic association, highlighting the central role of plant hormones in the regulation of plant growth and survival.
authors.affiliation: Plant-Microbe Interactions, Institute of Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. C.M.J.Pieterse@uu.nl
authors.forename: Corné M J
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Pieterse
authors.forename: Dieuwertje
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Van der Does
authors.forename: Christos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zamioudis
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leon-Reyes
authors.forename: Saskia C M
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Van Wees
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D060434:Herbivory; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D006801:Humans; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D010937:Plant Growth Regulators / Q000502:physiology*; D057865:Plant Immunity; D010944:Plants / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000382:microbiology; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D010937:Plant Growth Regulators