Objective
Apple and pear trees treated with the plant growth regulator prohexadione-ca are significantly less affected by fire blight (a bacterial disease) and by scab (caused by a fungus). Initial results indicate that prohexadione-ca, which is inactive as a bactericide or fungicide, transiently alters the sspectrum of endogenous flavonoids and related substances, thereby inducing natural resistance. The project aims at an in-depth elucidation of the under lying physiological, biochemical and molecular biological mechanisms. As a result, optimised methods for fire blight control, which are urgently needed particularly in pear -growing areas, and will become available. The disputed use of antibiotics to combat this disease will no longer be required. Likewise, the understanding of the new type of resistance mechanism will lead to new efficient, safe and environment friendly products for pathogen control in several further crop plants.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology mycology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs antibiotics
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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Coordinator
1060 WIEN
Austria
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