Effect of blasticidin S on hypersensitive death of potato leaf petiole cells caused by infection with an incompatible race of Phytophthora infestans

The plant hypersensitive response: concepts, control and consequences

“…While translational control of NLRs has not been demonstrated, this possibility does not seem to have been fully explored. Some studies have suggested that protein synthesis is required for HR (Keen et al , ; Nozue et al , ), while others have suggested the opposite (Doke and Tomiyama, ). The consensus is that protein synthesis is required (Greenberg, ) but it is of course quite possible that different cases of HR in different species may have somewhat different requirements.…”

Phytoalexins: Enzymology and Molecular Biology

“…Necrogenic resistance can be destroyed by such inhibitors (484,693,(695)(696)(697)(698), and in a number of cases, but not all (695), this correlates with inhibition of phytoalexin accumulation (484,693). With respect to enzymes of phytoalexin biosynthesis, Hadwiger et al have noted that induction, by a range of biotic and abiotic elicitors, of both PAL activity and pisatin (XI) accumulation in tissue of Pisum sarivum is sensitive to inhibitors of protein synthesis (1 02,110,660,66 1,694).…”

The Biology of Interactions between Plants and Bacteria

“…Yoshikawa [104] points out that although there are numerous reports that transcription and translation are required for phytoalexin biosynthesis, whether or not protein synthesis is required for the induction of hypersensitive cell necrosis is controversial. In several plant/fungus infections studied inhibitors do not prevent plant cell death during incompatible reactions although they may allow enhanced fungal development [105,106]. Hazen and Bushnell [107] however, found that heat shock and cytochalasin B treatments prevented plant cell death in barley coleoptiles inoculated with avirulent races of the powdery mildew fungus Erysiphe graminis.…”