Metabolomics to Exploit the Primed Immune System of Tomato Fruit.

ABSTRACT: Tomato is a major crop suffering substantial yield losses from diseases, as fruit decay at a postharvest level can claim up to 50% of the total production worldwide. Due to the environmental risks of fungicides, there is an increasing interest in exploiting plant immunity through priming, which is an adaptive strategy that improves plant defensive capacity by stimulating induced mechanisms. Broad-spectrum defence priming can be triggered by the compound ß-aminobutyric acid (BABA). In tomato plants, BABA induces resistance against various fungal and bacterial pathogens and different methods of application result in durable protection. Here, we demonstrate that the treatment of tomato plants with BABA resulted in a durable induced resistance in tomato fruit against Botrytiscinerea, Phytophth

SUBMITTER: Luna E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7143431 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature