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Pathogen-induced Defense Strategies in Plants

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Plants are the ultimate producers of this ecosystem and effect human life directly and/or indirectly. However, being sessile organisms, plants are susceptible to several adverse environmental conditions and pathogen ingress resulting in huge losses to yield and productivity. Therefore, plans are continuously evolving complex regulatory networks to respond to these environmental changes. Due to its impact on pre- and post-harvest losses, biotic stress is of great concern to plant scientists. Interpreting the underlying mechanism of plant response to biotic stresses is therefore of great importance. A brief account about these hostile conditions and plants responses towards them is described in this review.

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This work was supported by a grant from the Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program (SSAC, Grant No., PJ013 42501), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.

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Imran, Q.M., Yun, BW. Pathogen-induced Defense Strategies in Plants. J. Crop Sci. Biotechnol. 23, 97–105 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12892-019-0352-0

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