Université de Fribourg

Sulphur deficiency causes a reduction in antimicrobial potential and leads to increased disease susceptibility of oilseed rape

Dubuis, Pierre-Henri ; Marazzi, Cristina ; Städler, Erich ; Mauch, Felix

In: Journal of Phytopathology, 2005, vol. 153, p. 27-36

The reduction of atmospheric sulphur dioxide pollution is causing increasing problems of sulphur deficiency in sulphur-demanding crop plants in northern Europe. Elemental sulphur and many sulphur containing compounds such as cysteine-rich antifungal proteins, glucosinolates (GSL) and phytoalexins play important roles in plant disease resistance. The aim of this work was to analyse the effect of...