Which of the following is not true of the hypersensitive response?

Which of the following is not true of the hypersensitive response?


a. it relies on an R-Avr recognition between a specific plant cell receptor protein and a pathogen molecule.
b. it increases the production of PR proteins that may have antimicrobial functions
c. it enhances the production of ethylene that serves as a signal molecule transported throughout the plant to activate SAR (systemic acquired resistance.)
d. It contains an infection by stimulating cross linking of cell wall molecules and production of lignin.
e. the plant cells involved in the defense destroy themselves leaving lesions that indicate the site of the contained infection

Answer:C


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