The salicylic acid (SA) plays a critical role during the establishment of systemic acquired
resistance (SAR) in uninfected plant tissues after localised exposure to a pathogen. Here …

Botrytis cinerea is a destructive pathogen. A recent study by Escaray et al. revealed the
unexpected role of triterpenoid saponins as a susceptibility factor in Euphorbia lathyris …

The evolution of adaptive interactions with beneficial, neutral and detrimental microbes was
one of the key features enabling plant terrestrialization. Extensive studies have revealed …

The plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum possesses two genes encoding a trehalose-6-
phosphate synthase (TPS), an enzyme of the trehalose biosynthetic pathway. One of these …

Salicylic acid is a crucial plant hormone involved defence responses against biotrophic
pathogens. This thesis aimed to induce a defence response against the soil-borne biotroph …

The importance of the signaling compound salicylic acid for basal defense of potato
(Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Désirée) against Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late …

Real-Time PCR assay was used to quantify the expression of marker genes of the salicylic
acid, jasmonic acid and ethylene signaling pathways in seven Solanum lines after …

The moss Physcomitrella patens is an evolutionarily basal model system suitable for the
analysis of plant defence responses activated after pathogen assault. Upon infection with …

The central objective of this project is to explore defense systems that are induced in two
moss species, Amblystegium serpens and Physcomitrella patens, upon inoculation with the …