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Are stomatal responses the key to understanding the cost of fungal disease resistance in plants?
Author(s) -
Withers Catherine M,
Gay Alan P,
Mur Luis A J
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.4423
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , plant disease resistance , key (lock) , disease , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , fungal disease , agronomy , ecology , horticulture , medicine , biochemistry , pathology , gene
Preventing disease in cereal crops is important for maintaining productivity and as the availability and efficacy of chemical control becomes reduced the emphasis on breeding for disease resistance increases. However, there is evidence that disease resistance may be physiologically costly to the plant and we ask if understanding stomatal responses to fungal attack is the key to minimising reductions in growth associated with disease resistance. Copyright © 2011 Society of Chemical Industry