Improving Plant's High Temperature Tolerance and Pest Resistance by Microwave Effective Stimulation

摘要

We figured out that microwave stimulation is the useful strategy to enhance tolerance of plants to high temperature during fruit production and pest resistance. It will be applicable to harvest the heat-sensitive fruits such as strawberry under the high temperature. In addition, enhanced pest resistance via microwave irradiation may be due to the activation of jamonic acid synthetic pathway and its downstream signaling. Other mechanisms including production of secondary metabolites and reactive oxygen species were shown to be also involved in pest resistance. Therefore, the effects of microwave irradiation on these other mechanisms in plants will be investigated in future studies.