Article
Sulphur deficiency causes a reduction in antimicrobial potential and leads to increased disease susceptibility of oilseed rape.
2005-01-01
Abstract excerpt
The reduction of atmospheric sulphur dioxide pollution is causing increasing problems of sulphur deficiency in sulphur-demanding crop plants in northern Europe. Elemental sulphur and many sulphur containing compounds such as cysteine-rich antifungal proteins, glucosinolates (GSL) and phytoalexins play important roles in plant disease resistance. The aim of this work was to analyse the effect of inadequate sulphur...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2d9491a9-11b5-508f-be6a-0188af92633d
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1439-0434.2004.00923.x
