Primed to fail: Primed acclimation to water stress can lead to greater disease severity and reduced yields in Sclerotium rolfsii-inoculated cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.).

BACKGROUND: Primed acclimation (PA) is a phenomenon where an abiotic stressor early in a plant's vegetative stage primes defense pathways to the same stressor at later developmental stages. Similarly, cross-stress tolerance is a response where an exp…

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