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Pathogenesis-related proteins and acquired systemic resistance: Causal relationship or separate effects?

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This paper questions whether pathogenesis-related proteins (PRs) have any role in acquired systemic resistance, and whether there may be alternative explanations for the reduced number and size of lesions formed when leaves containing PRs are inoculated with virus. It is concluded that PRs may not play a direct role in acquired resistance; that altered lesion number may result from altered susceptibility of the leaf to mechanical inoculation, and that reduced lesion size could reflect a non-specific modulation of the basic localization mechanism. Preliminary experiments showing changes in ultrastructure of leaves associated with the development of acquired systemic resistance are discussed. The most striking change was development of myelinic bodies, generally between the cell wall and plasmalemma in uninoculated areas of leaf opposite halves bearing lesions.

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Fraser, R.S.S., Clay, C.M. Pathogenesis-related proteins and acquired systemic resistance: Causal relationship or separate effects?. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 89, 283–292 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01995263

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