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The hypersensitive response is one of the most efficient mechanisms of defence that is induced by the infection itself. Even though the triggering of the hypersensitivity reaction results from a very specific gene-for-gene recognition between plant and pathogen, what the plant does thereafter to defend itself appears to be specific only to the host. The alterations of host metabolism believed to participate in active defence include cell wall thickening resulting from production and deposition of various macromolecules, and the production of defence enzymes and proteins. Among the cell wall macromolecules are lignins and other phenolic polymers, polysaccharides such as callose, and proteins such as the hydroxyproline rich glycoproteins. Defence enzymes fall into two classes: enzymes that catalyze the production of various metabolites participating in resistance (ethylene, phytoalexins, aromatic compounds, oxidized metabolites), and direct defence enzymes (hydrolases such as chitinases and glucanases). The defence proteins include inhibitors of microbial proteases or of polygalacturonases and “pathogenesis-related” (PR) proteins.
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Fritig, B. et al. (1989). Virus-Induced Glycanhydrolases and Effects of Oligosaccharide Signals on Plant-Virus Interactions. In: Lugtenberg, B.J.J. (eds) Signal Molecules in Plants and Plant-Microbe Interactions. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74158-6_18
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