A comprehensive meta-analysis reveals the key variables and scope of seed defense priming.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When encountered with pathogens or herbivores, the activation of plant defense results in a penalty in plant fitness. Even though plant priming has the potential of enhancing resistance without fitness cost, hurdles such as mode of application of the priming agent or even detrimental effects in plant fitness have yet to be overcome. Here, we review and propose seed defense priming as an efficient and reliable approach for pathogen protection and pest management.

Methods

Gathering all available experimental data to date, we evaluated the magnitude of the effect depending on plant host, antagonist class, arthropod feeding guild and type of priming agent, as well as the influence of parameter selection in measuring seed defense priming effect on plant and antagonist

SUBMITTER: Talavera-Mateo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10398571 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature