Sweet immunity and disease resistance in tobacco and rice. KU Leuven
Plants are often exposed to various stresses. Both stress hormones and small sugars function as “stress” signals during adaptive responses. Although the idea of sugar-enhanced defense responses (“sweet immunity” or “sweet priming”) was launched more than half a century ago, little effort has been undertaken to understand the underlying mechanisms, that are probably linked to the “damaged self” hypothesis, predicting that increased levels of ...