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Vitamin B1 functions as an activator of plant disease resistance.
Plant physiology - 1 Jul 2005
Ahn Il-Pyung, Kim Soonok, Lee Yong-Hwan
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin B(1) (thiamine) is an essential nutrient for humans. Vitamin B(1) deficiency causes beriberi, which disturbs the central nervous and circulatory systems. In countries in which rice (Oryza sativa) is a major food, thiamine deficiency is prevalent because polishing of rice removes most of the thiamine in the grain. We demonstrate here that thiamine, in addition to its nutritional value, induces systemic...
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