Background During their post-harvest life, horticultural crops are affected by a diverse range
of processes, such as natural in planta senescence and fungal infection, as well as artificial …

Functional analogues of salicylic acid are able to activate plant defense responses and
provide attractive alternatives to conventional biocidal agrochemicals. However, there are …

To investigate how benzo-(1, 2, 3)-thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid S-methyl ester (BTH) may
affect disease resistance of peach fruit (Prunus persica L. cv. Jiubao), harvested fruit were …

Virus and viroid diseases are serious constraints to the production and profitability of a wide
range of tropical crops. Many plant virus outbreaks have been recorded in the last two …

The control of plant diseases by inducing plant resistance responses represents an
interesting solution to avoid yield losses and protect the natural environment. Hence, the …

Using tomato seedlings, the plant defence activator acibenzolar‐S‐methyl (benzo‐[1, 2, 3]‐
thiadiazole‐7‐carbothioic acid‐S‐methyl ester, ASM; Bion 50 WG) was assayed for its ability …

The plant defence activator acibenzolar-S-methyl (benzo [1, 2, 3] thiadiazole-7-carbothioic
acid-S-methyl ester, ASM; Bion 50 WG) was assayed on tomato seedlings for its ability to …

Many of the world's most important food crops are grown in the tropics and major crops like
rice, maize, wheat, sorghum, barley, tomato, chillies, okra, peas, peanut, sunflower …

Various crop plants have been domesticated, after careful selection from innumerable wild
plant species over several millennia, because of their potential for higher yield and better …

Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is an economically important virus of flue-cured tobacco.
Activation of systemic acquired resistance (SAR) by acibenzolar-S-methyl (ASM) in flue …