Abstract
Although plants are continuously exposed to a variety of potentially pathogenic microorganisms, successful infections are rare. Plants utilize a diverse array of defense mechanisms to prevent microbial infections. Some of these defense strategies involve constitutively expressed physical and chemical barriers that provide a first line of defense against potential pathogens (Mansfield 1983). Other defense mechanisms are specifically induced upon attempted infection. These induced defense responses include the synthesis of polyphenolic lignins and hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins which are incorporated into plant cell walls, causing the walls to be more resistant to microbial invasion? the synthesis of the hydrolases (β-1,3- glucanase and chitinase, which may inhibit fungi by degrading their cell walls; and the synthesis and accumulation of antimicrobial compounds called phytoalexins (Bell 1981, Collinge and Slusarenko 1987, Darvill and Albersheim 1984, Hahlbrock and Scheel 1987).
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bell AA (1981) Biochemical mechanisms of disease resistance. Ann Rev Plant Physiol 32:21–81
Collinge DB, Slusarenko AJ (1987) Plant gene expression in response to pathogens. Plant Mol Biol 9:389–410
Darvill AG, Albersheim P (1984) Phytoalexins and their elicitors — a defense against microbial infection in plants. Ann Rev Plant Physiol 35:243–275
Davis KR, Hahlbrock K (1987) Induction of defense responses in cultured parsley cells by plant cell wall fragments. Plant Physiol 85:1286–1290
Ebel J, Schmidt WE, Loyal R (1984) Phytoalexin synthesis in soybean cells: elicitor induction of phenylalanine ammonialyase and chalcone synthase mRNAs and correlation with phytoalexin accumulation. Arch Biochem Biophys 232:240–248
Hahlbrock K, Scheel D (1987) Biochemical responses of plants to pathogens. In: Chet I (ed) Innovative approaches to plant disease control, John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp. 229–254
Jefferson RA, Kavanagh TA, Bevan MW (1987) GUS fusions: Betaglucuronidase as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants. EMBO J 6:3901–3907
Kombrink E, Bollmann J, Hauffe KD, Knogge W, Scheel, Schmelzer E, Somssich I, Hahlbrock K (1986) Biochemical responses of non-host plant cells to fungi and fungal elicitors. In: Bailey JA (ed) Biology and Molecular Biology of Plant- Pathogen Interactions, NATO ASI Series, Vol. Hl, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 253–262
Lamb, CJ, Corbin DR, Lawton MA, Sauer N, Wingate VPM (1986) Recognition and response in plants:pathogen interactions. In: Lugtenberg B (ed) Recognition in microbe-plant symbiotic interactions. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 333–344
Mansfield, J (1983) Antimicrobial compounds. In: Callow JA (ed) Biochemical plant pathology. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, New York, pp. 237–265
Meyerowitz EM (1987) Arabidopsis thaliana. Ann Rev Genet 21:93–111
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1989 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Davis, K.R., Schott, E., Dong, X., Ausubel, F.M. (1989). Arabidopsis Thaliana as a Model System for Studying Plant- Pathogen Interactions. In: Lugtenberg, B.J.J. (eds) Signal Molecules in Plants and Plant-Microbe Interactions. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74158-6_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74158-6_10
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-74160-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-74158-6
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive