It is involved in the systemic acquired resistance (SAR) in which a pathogenic attack on one part of the plant induces resistance in other parts.

The strain also has been demonstrated to induce systemic resistance in certain plants, protecting them from pathogen infection.

The various mechanisms include antibiosis, parasitism, inducing host-plant resistance, and competition.

Introducing pest-control genes into plants might work, she said, "but it certainly can induce resistance in pests, and it can have negative effects on beneficial insects."

Microbial inoculants can induce systemic acquired resistance (SAR) of crop species to several common crop diseases (provides resistance against pathogens).

Since candida can't change its cell wall structure, the enzymatic approach is thought not to induce resistance.

Leaf necrosis provides immediate control of fungal invasion and induces systemic acquired resistance; both responses mediate basic protection against subsequent pathogen inoculation.

The two proteins induced a hypersensitive response and systemic acquired resistance within the banana plant after being exposed to the bacterial pathogen.

For example, cytokinins have been described to induce resistance against Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana tabacum.

Another example is that doctors treating patients with H.I.V. or AIDS often test a patient's virus for mutations that induce resistance to particular drugs.