Increase in salicylic acid at the onset of systemic acquired resistance in cucumber. Vernooij et al., 1994. Salicylic acid is not the translocated signal responsible for inducing systemic acquired resistance but is required in signal transduction. Delaney et al., 1994. A central role of salicylic acid in plant disease resistance.
Paranoid plants have their genes examined.
Molecular mechanisms of defense by rhizobacteria against root disease. A plant flavone, luteolin, induces expression of Rhizobium meliloti nodulation genes. Rhizobium-plant signal exchange.