Patent ID: 8507756

Claim:
A seed from which a plant resistant to pest damage can be grown, wherein the seed comprises a seed treated with a seed treatment composition to induce a plant resistance mechanism against one or more pests in a plant grown from said seed so as to restrict plant damage by pests, the treatment composition comprising a treatment agent selected from jasmonic acid (JA) or related members of the jasmonate family of oxylipins, or other compounds that activate JA-dependant herbivore resistance pathways including: jasmonic acid or its jasmonate salts, such as, for example, potassium or sodium jasmonate; jasmonic acid methyl ester (‘methyl jasmonate’); jasmonic acid-L-amino acid (amide-linked) conjugates, such as, for example, the conjugate with Lisoleucine or the conjugates with L-valine, L-leucine and L-phenylalanine; 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid; coronatine (an amide of coronafacic acid with 2-ethyl-1-aminocyclopropane carboxylic acid); coronafacoyl-L-serine and coronafacoyl-L-threonine; methyl esters of 1-oxo-indanoylisoleucine and 1-oxo-indanoyl-leucine; coronalon (2-[(6-ethyl-1-oxo-indane-4-carbonyl)-amino]3-methyl-pentanoic acid methyl ester); or combinations thereof.