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The outcome of any plant/pathogen interaction depends on complex cascades of recognition, attack, and defense reactions at the plant/microbe interface. Within minutes of pathogen recognition, various early events occur in the host, such as ion fluxes across the plasma membrane, cascades of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation, and production of reactive oxygen species. Only a few oligosaccharides have been fully characterized in terms of their structure and spectrum of biological activities. These oligosaccharides include β-1,3–1,6 glucans, xyloglucans, oligogalacturonides, and chitin-derived oligomers. β-Glucans are heterogeneous polysaccharides of glucose polymers, consisting of a backbone of β-(1–3)-linked β-D-glucopyranosyl units with β-(1–6)-linked side chains of varying distributions and lengths. β-1,3–1,6 glucans were actively involved in plant-pathogen interactions during the mid-1970s.
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Patel, D., Naik, A. (2022). Production, Purification, and Characterization of Carbohydrate Elicitor: β-Linked Glucopyranosyl. In: Amin, D., Amaresan, N., Ray, S. (eds) Biotic Elicitors. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2601-6_8
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