title: Milestones in plant sulfur research on sulfur-induced-resistance (SIR) in Europe.
abstract: Until the 1970's of the last century sulfur (S) was mainly regarded as a pollutant being the main contributor of acid rain, causing forest dieback in central Europe. When Clean Air Acts came into force at the start of the 1980's SO2 contaminations in the air were consequently reduced within the next years. S changed from an unwanted pollutant into a lacking plant nutrient in agriculture since agricultural fields were no longer "fertilized" indirectly by industrial pollution. S deficiency was first noticed in Brassica crops that display an especially high S demand because of its content of S-containing secondary metabolites, the glucosinolates. In Scotland, where S depositions decreased even faster than in continental Europe, an increasing disease incidence with Pyrenopeziza brassicae was observed in oilseed rape in the beginning 1990's and the concept of sulfur-induced-resistance (SIR) was developed after a relationship between the S status and the disease incidence was uncovered. Since then a lot of research was carried out to unravel the background of SIR in the metabolism of agricultural crops and to identify metabolites, enzymes and reactions, which are potentially activated by the S metabolism to combat fungal pathogens. The S status of the crop is affecting many different plant features such as color and scent of flowers, pigments in leaves, metabolite concentrations and the release of gaseous S compounds which are directly influencing the desirability of a crop for a variety of different organisms from microorganisms, over insects and slugs to the point of grazing animals. The present paper is an attempt to sum up the knowledge about the effect of the S nutritional status of agricultural crops on parameters that are directly related to their health status and by this to SIR. Milestones in SIR research are compiled, open questions are addressed and future projections were developed.
authors: Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Julius Kühn-Institute, Institute for Crop and Soil Science Braunschweig, Germany.
authors: Elke
authors: E
authors: Bloem
authors: Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Julius Kühn-Institute, Institute for Crop and Soil Science Braunschweig, Germany.
authors: Silvia
authors: S
authors: Haneklaus
authors: Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Julius Kühn-Institute, Institute for Crop and Soil Science Braunschweig, Germany.
authors: Ewald
authors: E
authors: Schnug
keywords: S fertilization; biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens; fungal diseases; nutrient induced resistance; plant S metabolism
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