Elicitation as a Wonderful Cellular Communication within the Plant
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2020) | Viewed by 517
Special Issue Editors
Interests: poly- and oligosaccharides (plant, micro- and macro-algae); elicitors; plant secondary metabolites; plant stress; enzymology
Interests: analytical chemistry of poly- and oligosaccharides; plant secondary metabolites carbohydrate chemistry; chemical biology; chromatography; plant protection and animal health; food science
2. Clermont Auvergne INP, CNRS, Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Interests: biomaterials; polymers; polysaccharides; nanomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the beginning of humanity, plants have fascinated and continue to fascinate individuals and civilizations. To adapt to their environment, plants have developed an efficient and multifaceted immune system through cellular signalization using elicitor messengers. In fact, it is now well-established that when we talk about elicitors we have to talk about an amazing cellular and sub-cellular communication between plants and pathogens. Thanks to this biochemical language, several defense reactions could be initiated, such as reactive oxygens species and the synthesis of secondary metabolites such as phytoalexins and antimicrobial proteins to inhibit pathogen proliferation.
Consequently, this Special Issue essentially aims to: (i) Cover the chemical research of the main elicitors (poly- and oligosaccharides, glycopeptides, glycolipids, etc.) described in the literature from the past several decades; (ii) Characterize and increase our knowledge on the isolation, analytical characterization, and chemical structure of elicitors; (iii) Increase our knowledge on the main biological activities of elicitors regarding chemical structure/function relationships (investigate the influence of the degree of polymerization (DP) and the degree of substitution (DS) of glyco-conjugates on the stimulation of natural plant defence, understand and define the main metabolic ways implicated in the elicitation’s communications, etc.); (iv) Propose the main strategies to generate new families and derivatives of bio-elicitors using chemical and enzymatic processes; (v) Isolate and identify the main plant-derived secondary metabolites involved in plant defence responses—plant responses in different conditions (with pathogens, elicitors, etc.), extraction, purification, and chemical characterization; and (vi) Evaluate the extracted bioactive plant-derived secondary metabolites—identification of antimicrobial compounds, dose–response relationships and wide-spectrum activity, comparative and integrative metabolomics analysis to investigate the modes of action of bioactive compounds.
Assoc. Prof. Cédric Delattre
Assoc. Prof. Redouan Elboutachfaiti
Prof. Emmanuel Petit
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Elicitors of natural plant defense
- Biotic stress
- Poly- and oligosaccharides
- Plant–pathogen interactions
- Plant biochemistry
- Secondary metabolites
