• openAccess   Chemical priming of immunity without costs to plant growth 

      Buswell, Will; Schwarzenbacher, Roland E.; Luna Diez, Estrella; Sellwood, Matthew A.; Chen, Beining; Flors, Victor; Pétriacq, Pierre; Ton, Jurriaan Wiley (2018)
      b-Aminobutyric acid (BABA) induces broad-spectrum disease resistance, but also represses plant growth, which has limited its exploitation in crop protection. BABA perception relies on binding to the aspartyl-tRNA synthetase ...
    • closedAccess   Defense Priming: An Adaptive Part of Induced Resistance 

      Mauch-Mani, Brigitte; Baccelli, Ivan; Luna Diez, Estrella; Flors, Victor Annual Reviews (2017)
      Priming is an adaptive strategy that improves the defensive capacity of plants. This phenomenon is marked by an enhanced activation of induced defense mechanisms. Stimuli from pathogens, beneficial microbes, or arthropods, ...
    • closedAccess   Descendants of primed arabidopsis plants exhibit resistance to biotic stress 

      Flors, Victor; Slaughter, Ana; Daniel, Xavier; Luna Diez, Estrella; Hohn, Barbara; Mauch-Mani, Brigitte American Society of Plant Biologists (2012)
      An attack of plants by pathogens or treatment with certain resistance-inducing compounds can lead to the establishment of a unique primed state of defense. Primed plants show enhanced defense reactions upon further challenge ...
    • closedAccess   Fine Tuning of Reactive Oxygen Species Homeostasis Regulates Primed Immune Responses in Arabidopsis 

      Pastor, Victoria; Luna Diez, Estrella; Ton, Jurriaan; Cerezo García, Miguel; García Agustín, Pilar; Flors, Victor The American Phytopathological Society (2013-11)
      Selected stimuli can prime th e plant immune system for a faster and stronger defense reaction to pathogen attack. Pretreatment of Arabidopsis with the chemical agent β - aminobutyric acid (BABA) augmented ...
    • closedAccess   Long-lasting b-aminobutyric acid-induced resistance protects tomato fruit against Botrytis cinerea 

      Wilkinson, S. W.; Pastor, Victoria; Paplauskas, S.; Pétriacq, Pierre; Luna Diez, Estrella Wiley (2018)
      Minimizing losses to pests and diseases is essential for producing sufficient food to feed the world’s rapidly growingpopulation. The necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea triggers devastating pre- and post-harvest yield ...
    • closedAccess   Next-generation systemic acquired resistance 

      Luna Diez, Estrella; Bruce, Toby J. A.; Roberts, Michael; Flors, Victor; Ton, Jurriaan American Society of Plant Biologists (2012)
      Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a plant immune response to pathogen attack. Recent evidence suggests that plant immunity involves regulation by chromatin remodeling and DNA methylation. We investigated whether SAR ...
    • openAccess   Plant perception of β-aminobutyric acid is mediated by an aspartyl-tRNA synthetase 

      Luna Diez, Estrella; Van Hulten, Marieke; Zhang, Yuhua; Berkowitz, Oliver; López, Ana; Pétriacq, Pierre; Sellwood, Matthew A.; Chen, Beining; Burrell, Michael M.; Van De Meene, Allison M. L.; Pieterse, Corné MJ J; Flors, Victor; Ton, Jurriaan Nature Publishing Group (2014)
      Specific chemicals can prime the plant immune system for augmented defense. β-aminobutyric acid (BABA) is a priming agent that provides broad-spectrum disease protection. However, BABA also suppresses plant growth when ...
    • closedAccess   Primed plants do not forget 

      Pastor, Victoria; Luna Diez, Estrella; Mauch-Mani, Brigitte; Ton, Jurriaan; Flors, Victor Elsevier (2013)
      In their struggle for life, plants can employ sophisticated strategies to defend themselves against potentially harmful pathogens and insects. One mechanism by which plants can increase their level of resistance is by ...