Mild water stress-induced priming enhance tolerance to Rosellinia necatrix in susceptible avocado rootstocks.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:White root rot (WRR) disease caused by Rosellinia necatrix is one of the most important threats affecting avocado orchards in temperate regions. The eradication of WRR is a difficult task and environmentally friendly control methods are needed to lessen its impact. Priming plants with a stressor (biotic or abiotic) can be a strategy to enhance plant defense/tolerance against future stress episodes but, despite the known underlying common mechanisms, few studies use abiotic-priming for improving tolerance to forthcoming biotic-stress and vice versa ('cross-factor priming'). To assess whether cross-factor priming can be a potential method for enhancing avocado tolerance to WRR disease, 'Dusa' avocado rootstocks, susceptible to R. necatrix, were subjected to two levels of water str

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Ferri E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821026 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature