Systemin Jasmonate-Mediated Systemic Defense.pdfVIP

Molecular Plant ? Volume 4 ? Number 4 ? Pages 607–615 ? July 2011 REVIEW ARTICLE Systemin/Jasmonate-Mediated Systemic Defense Signaling in Tomato Jia-Qiang Sun, Hong-Ling Jiang and Chuan-You Li1 State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, National Centre for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China ABSTRACT Wound-inducible proteinase inhibitors (PIs) in tomato plants provide a useful model system to elucidate the signal transduction pathways that regulate systemic defense response. Among the proposed interc