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ReviewFrontiers in plant science2021

Plant Defense Responses to Biotic Stress and Its Interplay With Fluctuating Dark/Light Conditions.

Zahra Iqbal, Mohammed Shariq Iqbal, Abeer Hashem, Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah, Mohammad Israil Ansari

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Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
79citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
33.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 215 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Evaluating plant growth-defense trade-offs by modeling the interaction between primary and secondary metabolism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Zahra IqbalMolecular Crop Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Mohammed Shariq IqbalAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Lucknow, India.
Abeer HashemBotany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Elsayed Fathi Abd AllahPlant Production Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad Israil AnsariDepartment of Botany, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India.
King Saud University · SAChulalongkorn University · THUniversity of Lucknow · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants are subjected to a plethora of environmental cues that cause extreme losses to crop productivity. Due to fluctuating environmental conditions, plants encounter difficulties in attaining full genetic potential for growth and reproduction. One such environmental condition is the recurrent attack on plants by herbivores and microbial pathogens. To surmount such attacks, plants have developed a complex array of defense mechanisms. The defense mechanism can be either preformed, where toxic secondary metabolites are stored; or can be inducible, where defense is activated upon detection of an attack. Plants sense biotic stress conditions, activate the regulatory or transcriptional machinery, and eventually generate an appropriate response. Plant defense against pathogen attack is well understood, but the interplay and impact of different signals to generate defense responses against biotic stress still remain elusive. The impact of light and dark signals on biotic stress response is one such area to comprehend. Light and dark alterations not only regulate defense mechanisms impacting plant development and biochemistry but also bestow resistance against invading pathogens. The interaction between plant defense and dark/light environment activates a signaling cascade. This signaling cascade acts as a connecting link between perception of biotic stress, dark/light environment, and generation of an appropriate physiological or biochemical response. The present review highlights molecular responses arising from dark/light fluctuations

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biotic stressdarkdefense responselightplant protectiontranscription factor

Identifiers

PMID33763093
PMCPMC7982811
OpenAlexW3134528864

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