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Relative fructose content and tomato susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea
Plant defence against Botrytis cinerea, a ubiquitous pathogenic fungus, is known to depend upon the mobilisation of sugars which provide energy and carbon skeletons for the production of antifungal compounds. Lecompte et al. hypothesise that glucose and fructose could play distinct roles in plant defence, showing that disease severity is highly correlated to the relative […] More
