Novel Insight into Elicitors of Plant Immunity and the Activated Defensive Pathways
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 573
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Interests: rice immunity; development of plant resistance inducer
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2. Fujian Universities Key Laboratory for Plant Microbe Interaction, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Interests: plant-fungal interactions
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Dear Colleagues,
Current plant protection from pathogenic microorganisms still mainly depends on the application of chemical fungicides and bactericides. The undesirable consequences of excessive or indiscriminate application of these compounds, such as environmental pollution, chemical residues and biodiversity reduction, have drawn worldwide concern. Plant immunity elicitors (PIEs), the components derived from biological sources or natural/synthetic compounds, can induce plant defensive responses through exogenous treatment. Usually, PIEs are unable to inhibit pathogens’ growth and thus have low toxicity. Over recent decades, accumulating PIEs are identified, which, according to the chemical properties, can be classified into proteins, oligosaccharides, lipids, metabolites and chemical compounds. Discovering and characterizing PIEs, especially those with an ability to induce durable and broad-spectrum plant resistance, provides a feasible strategy for controlling plant diseases in an environmentally friendly manner. Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue of Plants is to pool and publish new insights into PIEs and their functional mechanisms, which is expected to advance the knowledge of plant immunity priming and develop prospective plant disease-controlling agents with biological safety.
Prof. Dr. Mo Wang
Prof. Dr. Zonghua Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant innate immunity
- elicitor
- induction mechanism
- resistance against pathogenic microorganisms
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