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Salicylic Acid and Defense Responses in Plants

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Phytohormones: A Window to Metabolism, Signaling and Biotechnological Applications

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Salicylic acid (SA) is a simple phenolic compound distributed in a wide range of plant taxa. Depending on the plant species, developmental stage, and growth conditions, it can be synthesized from cinnamic acid produced by phenylalanine ammonia-lyase in the cytosol or from isochorismic acid generated by isochorismate synthase in chloroplasts. However, a fully defined SA biosynthetic pathway is still unavailable in plants. Besides its role in regulating various aspects of plant growth and development, SA is a plant immune signal essential for both local defense response and systemic acquired resistance. Significant progress has been made recently in understanding SA-mediated defense signaling networks including identification of SA receptors and elucidation of the crucial role of NPR1 (nonexpressor of pathogenesis-related genes 1) in SA signal execution. Understanding of SA-mediated plant defense has facilitated the development of disease-resistant crops through genetic manipulation of the SA signaling pathway. Although the use of NPR1 and its orthologs in develo** broad-spectrum transgenic disease resistance has been successfully extended to a variety of crop species, commercial application of these transgenic crops has been hampered by ethical concerns. In this regard, cisgenesis may hold the potential for application of bioengineered disease-resistant crops in agriculture.

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Chuanfu An & Zhonglin Mou

  2. MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Chuanfu An

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  1. Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Lam-Son Phan Tran

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An, C., Mou, Z. (2014). Salicylic Acid and Defense Responses in Plants. In: Tran, LS., Pal, S. (eds) Phytohormones: A Window to Metabolism, Signaling and Biotechnological Applications. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0491-4_7

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