Summary
This 2001 study reports that oligandrin, an elicitin-like protein produced by an unspecified mycoparasite organism, can induce systemic resistance against crown and root rot diseases in tomato plants. The work suggests a potential biocontrol mechanism via elicitor-induced host defence priming, though the specific experimental conditions and quantitative efficacy data cannot be confirmed from the title alone.
Regional applicability
Crown and root rot pathogens affect glasshouse and field tomato production in the United Kingdom and globally. If the findings were reproducible in UK growing conditions (particularly protected cultivation systems where these diseases are prevalent), they could inform integrated pest management strategies; however, transferability depends on the specific pathogen species and growing environment tested.
Key measures
Systemic resistance induction; disease severity (crown and root rot incidence or progression); potentially biochemical markers of resistance or pathogen colonisation levels
Outcomes reported
The study appears to evaluate whether oligandrin, an elicitin-like protein from a mycoparasite, can induce systemic resistance against crown and root rot pathogens in tomato plants. The mechanism and efficacy of this resistance induction would have been measured.
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