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Salicylic Acid and its Function in Plant Immunity F
Author(s) -
An Chuanfu,
Mou Zhonglin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2011.01043.x
Subject(s) - jasmonic acid , salicylic acid , plant immunity , crosstalk , brassinosteroid , auxin , biology , abscisic acid , arabidopsis , immune system , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , mutant , biochemistry , gene , genetics , physics , optics
Zhonglin Mou
(Corresponding author) The small phenolic compound salicylic acid (SA) plays an important regulatory role in multiple physiological processes including plant immune response. Significant progress has been made during the past two decades in understanding the SA‐mediated defense signaling network. Characterization of a number of genes functioning in SA biosynthesis, conjugation, accumulation, signaling, and crosstalk with other hormones such as jasmonic acid, ethylene, abscisic acid, auxin, gibberellic acid, cytokinin, brassinosteroid, and peptide hormones has sketched the finely tuned immune response network. Full understanding of the mechanism of plant immunity will need to take advantage of fast developing genomics tools and bioinformatics techniques. However, elucidating genetic components involved in these pathways by conventional genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology approaches will continue to be a major task of the community. High‐throughput method for SA quantification holds the potential for isolating additional mutants related to SA‐mediated defense signaling.