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A soluble carbohydrate elicitor from Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici is recognized by a broad range of cereals.
2000-04-01
Abstract excerpt
Wheat plants rapidly recognize pathogenic and non-pathogenic conidia of the powdery mildew fungusBlumeria (syn. Erysiphe)graminis on their leaf surfaces. This suggests that a chemical signal emanates from conidia at the pre-penetration stage of infection. Conidia of B. graminis f. sp. tritici were found to contain an elicitor that was easily washed off their surface. The elicitor activity is heat stable and could...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cd1bd004-bc97-5385-a4f2-e5e49145c09f
- DOI
- 10.1006/pmpp.2000.0259
