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Microbial Elicitors for Priming Plant Defense Mechanisms

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 60

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Some microrganisms have evolved to be associated with plants, receiving nutrients from plants, and helping plants to fight pathogens by producing microbial elicitors, which are compounds that trigger plant defenses. Elicitors are thus safe compounds that can replace harmful pesticides for a sustainable agriculture. Here we review plant immunity and microbial elicitors with focus on antibiotics, volatile organic compounds, siderophores, antimicrobials, enzymes, salicylic acid, methyl salicylate, benzoic acid, benzothiadiazole and chitosan.

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Abbreviations

PRR:

Pattern-recognition receptors

MAMP:

Microbe-Associated Molecular Pattern

DAMP:

Damage-associated molecular patterns

MTI:

MAMP triggered immunity

RLP:

Receptor-like proteins

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We would like to thank all the Indian funding agencies that provided financial support (JRF, SRF, and Merit Scholarship) to all the authors who have together contributed to this manuscript. The duly acknowledged funding agencies are the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), University Grant Commission (UGC) and CCS Haryana Agriculture University (CCSHAU).

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Anamika et al. (2023). Microbial Elicitors for Priming Plant Defense Mechanisms. In: Singh, N., Chattopadhyay, A., Lichtfouse, E. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 60. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24181-9_8

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