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ABA Regulation of Plant Response to Biotic Stresses

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Plants live in complicated environments in which they are obliged to defend against a broad range of attackers. In order to protect themselves, plants have evolved complex regulatory signaling networks where multiple hormonal pathways antagonistically or synergistically interact and influence plant defense responses. Beside of its prominent roles in abiotic stress tolerance, the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) has also been emerged as crucial regulator in biotic stresses. Accumulated studies have shown that ABA can exert both positive and negative influence on host defense, and its efficacy is dependent on the specific plant–attacker combination. In this chapter, we mainly focused on recent literature dealing with the roles of ABA in modulating plant defense responses against various attackers.

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The work in the authors’ laboratory was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (31200915), the West Light Foundation of CAS, and Yong Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. We apologize to the colleagues whose work could not be cited here because of space restrictions.

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Chen, L., Yu, D. (2014). ABA Regulation of Plant Response to Biotic Stresses. In: Zhang, DP. (eds) Abscisic Acid: Metabolism, Transport and Signaling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9424-4_20

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