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Salicylic acid production in response to biotic and abiotic stress depends on isochorismate in Nicotiana benthamiana

Catinot, Jérémy ; Buchala, Antony ; Abou-Mansour, Eliane ; Métraux, Jean-Pierre

In: Febs Letters, 2008, vol. 582, no. 4, p. 473-478

Salicylic acid (SA) is an important signal involved in the activation of defence responses against abiotic and biotic stress. In tobacco, benzoic acid or glucosyl benzoate were proposed to be precursors of SA. This is in sharp contrast with studies in Arabidopsis thaliana, where SA derives from isochorismate. We have determined the importance of isochorismate for SA biosynthesis in Nicotiana...

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Genetic evidence that expression of NahG modifies defence pathways independent of salicylic acid biosynthesis in the Arabidopsis–Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato interaction

Heck, Silvia ; Grau, Theres ; Buchala, Antony ; Métraux, Jean-Pierre ; Nawrath, Christiane

In: The Plant Journal, 2003, vol. 36(3), p. 342

The salicylic acid (SA)-induction deficient (sid) mutants of Arabidopsis, eds5 and sid2 accumulate normal amounts of camalexin after inoculation with Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst), while transgenic NahG plants expressing an SA hydroxylase that degrades SA have reduced levels of camalexin and exhibit a higher susceptibility to different...