Priming: getting ready for battle.

By U. Conrath, G. Beckers, V. Flors, P. García-Agustín, G. Jakab, F. Mauch, M. Newman, C. Pieterse, B. Poinssot, M. Pozo and 6 more. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2006

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Infection of plants by necrotizing pathogens or colonization of plant roots with certain beneficial microbes causes the induction of a unique physiological state called "priming." The primed state can also be induced by treatment of plants with various natural and synthetic compounds. Primed plants display either faster, stronger, or both activation of the various cellular defense responses that are induced following attack by either pathogens or insects or in response to abiotic stress. Although the phenomenon has been known for decades, most progress in our understanding of priming has been made over the past few years. Here, we summarize the current knowledge of priming in various induced-resistance phenomena in plants.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Molecular Biology

1. Martin Heil
2. U. Conrath
3. B. Ownley
4. H. Alizadeh
5. C. Azcón-Aguilar
6. C. Mutegi
7. A. M. Cortes-Barco
8. M. Höfte

In Plant Science

1. C. Pieterse
2. Martin Heil
3. P. Bakker
4. U. Conrath
5. L. C. van Loon
6. M. Pozo
7. Saskia C. M. Van Wees
8. M. Dicke

Citations in the corpus

• Can we use entomopathogenic fungi as endophytes for dual biological control of insect pests and plant pathogens (2018, background): “…of proteins involved in plant defense and stress response (Gómez-Vidal et al., 2009), thus inducing a ‘primed state’ by which plants would be able to achieve both faster and stronger activation of a broad-spectrum resistance to pathogens, insects, and abiotic stress (Conrath et al., 2006).”
• Grafting fruiting vegetables to manage soilborne pathogens, foliar pathogens, arthropods and weeds (2010, neutral): “, 1997, 2001) whereby the plant is ‘primed’ for defense against an array of pests (Conrath et al., 2006; Frost et al., 2008).”
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• Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria mediate induced systemic resistance in rice against bacterial leaf blight caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (2011, background): “Priming offers an energy cost-efficient strategy, enabling the plant to react more effectively to any invader encountered by boosting infection-induced cellular defense responses (Becker and Conrath, 2007; Conrath et al., 2006).”
• Salicylic Acid, a multifaceted hormone to combat disease. (2009, background): “subsequent pathogen infection manifested as faster and stronger expression of defense genes compared to naive plants (27).”
• Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication (2016, background): “The induced emission of volatile organic compounds due to mild abiotic stress could prime the defence responses of plants upon exposure to a biotic stress (Conrath et al. 2006; Copolovici et al. 2014; Heil and Kost 2006; Niinemets 2010).”
• Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: Unraveling the Complexity of Genes and Networks to Survive (2013, background): “The sensitization of stress responsiveness is called priming [88, 89].”