Talk:Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables
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Quercus, it is not clear at all which are the three types of resistance in your article. Could you clarify that ? ant
- I agree that part was not very well written- I've rewritten that sentence now quercus robur
Hi ya, This page redirects from general the general disease resistance page. I want to include some more technical detail about disease resistance and maybe rewrite some stuff. Should I start a new page or jsut edit this one? Rhyswg
I'd also like to merge the Systematic Aquired Resistance page to, as it's just a disease resistance response Rhyswg
[edit] Plant immunity
Hmm, this page just tells me that plants are immune to some diseases, which sure, okay. But not really how or why. (BTW, I am an immunologist by trade).
Also, calling this page "Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables" implies that it does not discuss "Disease resistance in (the rest of the) plant", which redirects here, there is a problem there. It might be useful to include some of the information about specific mechanisms (the how part) from the following pages:
- Antimicrobial peptides are an evolutionarily conserved component of the innate immune response and are found among all classes of life.
- Pattern recognition receptors are proteins used by organisms to identify molecules associated with microbial pathogens.
- Toll-like receptors are a major class of pattern recognition receptor.
- The Complement system is a biochemical cascade of the immune system that helps clear pathogens from an organism.
- Systemic acquired resistance is found in plants and is analogous to the innate immune system. See also: Plant defense against herbivory
Also, this page NEEDS references.
Just a suggestion. Drop me a line if you would like some help with this article. Cheers--DO11.10 20:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
