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SUBMITTER: Yang W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4713477 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Wei W Xu Xiaonan X Li Yang Y Wang Yingzi Y Li Ming M Wang Yong Y Ding Xinhua X Chu Zhaohui Z
PloS one 20160111 1
Flavonoids are ubiquitous in the plant kingdom and have many diverse functions, including UV protection, auxin transport inhibition, allelopathy, flower coloring and insect resistance. Here we show that rutin, a proud member of the flavonoid family, could be functional as an activator to improve plant disease resistances. Three plant species pretreated with 2 mM rutin were found to enhance resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, Ralstonia solanacearum, and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato st ...[more]