HYPERSENSITIVE RESPONSE ELICITOR-INDUCED STRESS RESISTANCE

摘要

. A method of imparting stress resistance to plants comprising: applying a hypersensitive response elicitor protem or polypeptide in a non-infectious form to a plant or plant seed under conditions effective to impart stress resistance, with the proviso that the stress resistance is not drought resistance. 2. A method according to claim I, wherein the stress resistance is resistance to a stress selected from the group consisting of climate-related stress other than drought, au- pollution stress, chemical stress, and nutritional stress.