Plant immunity in natural populations and agricultural fields: Low presence of pathogenesis-related proteins in Solanum leaves.

ABSTRACT: Plant immunity has mainly been studied under controlled conditions, limiting our knowledge regarding the regulation of immunity under natural conditions where plants grow in association with multiple microorganisms. Plant pathology theory, based on laboratory data, predicts complex biochemical plant-pathogen interactions leading to coevolution of pathogen infectivity vs. plant recognition of microbes in multiple layers over time. However, plant immunity is currently not evaluated in relation to ecological time-scales and field conditions. Here we report status of immunity in plants without visible disease symptoms in wild populations of nightshades, Solanum dulcamara and Solanum nigrum, and in agricultural fields of potato, Solanum tuberosum. We analysed presence of pathogenesis-related pr

SUBMITTER: Lankinen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6226184 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature