“…production of lytic enzymes like pectinases, glucanases, xylanases (Benhamou et al, 1990;Alconada et al, 1995;Christakopoulos et al, 1996), and large amounts of biologically active metabolites such as carotenoids, bikaverins, mycotoxins, phytotropins, gibberellins and estrogens (Bruckner et al, 1989). Plants react against Fusarium penetration by accumulating callose or plant cell-wall components (Rodriguez-Galvez & Mendgen, 1995;El-Gendy et al, 2001), by increasing the steady-state mRNA level of phenylpropanoid pathway enzymes (Ni et al, 1996) or pathogenesis-related proteins (Casacuberta et al, 1992).…”