Natural elicitors, effectors and modulators of plant responses.
In plants, successful defense relies on fast and specific response to biotic attack. In plant-microbial and plant-plant interactions several elicitors, effectors and modulators are recognized by specific and unspecific receptors that trigger signal cascades eventually leading to gene expression and plant responses. Here we review the chemical nature and signaling pathways of natural products released by microorganisms, herbivores, and plants during pathogenic infections, herbivory, symbioses and allelopathic interactions.
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, Plant Physiology Unit, Innovation Centre, University of Turin, Via Quarello 11/A, 10135 Turin, Italy. massimo.maffei@unito.it
Massimo E
ME
Maffei
Gen-Ichiro
G
Arimura
Axel
A
Mithöfer
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D015394:Molecular Structure; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*