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Functional Defense Signals in Plants

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Plants live in a complex environment where they interact with a number of microbial pathogens with varying lifestyles and infection strategies. Numerous morphological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms exist to cope with the effects of pathogen infection. Some mechanisms are preexisting and others induced upon infection of pathogens or attack of herbivores. Phytohormones have been shown to play key role in plant defense, and they mediate defense signaling cascades in plants. Phytohormones such as salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, and ethylene have been shown to play crucial role in the regulation of defense signaling. Understanding of function of complex defense signaling network is important. The present chapter is aimed to study about the role of phytohormones in induction of defense mechanism in plants. Moreover, this study covers the defense mechanisms (existing/induced) in the plants against the phytopathogens.

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The authors thank Prof B. N. Mishra for providing innovative suggestions.

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  1. Faculty of Biotechnology, IBST, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Barabanki, UP, India

    Tabish Qidwai

  2. Institute of Molecular Medicine, Jamia Hamdard University, Delhi, India

    Tejal Shreeya

  3. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India

    Sudipta Saha

  4. Department of Biotechnology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India

    Monica Sharma

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Qidwai, T., Shreeya, T., Saha, S., Sharma, M. (2021). Functional Defense Signals in Plants. In: Nath, M., Bhatt, D., Bhargava, P., Choudhary, D.K. (eds) Microbial Metatranscriptomics Belowground. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9758-9_25

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