“…In addition, some synthetic compounds elicit SAR-related events, such as the induction of broad disease resistance and the expression of SAR marker genes, but have very little or no antibiotic activity. Among these chemicals, 2,6-dichloroisonicotinic acid (Mé traux et al, 1990;Uknes et al, 1992), benzo(1,2,3)thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid S-methyl ester (BTH) Gö rlach et al, 1996;Lawton et al, 1996), N-cyanomethyl-2-chloroisonicotinamide (Yoshida et al, 1990;Nakashita et al, 2002a;Yasuda et al, 2003a), 3-chloro-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxylic acid (Nishioka et al, 2003;Yasuda et al, 2003b), andN-(3-chloro-4-methylphenyl)-4-methyl-1,2,3-thiadiazole-5-carboxamide (Yasuda et al, 2004) induce SAR by acting at the point of SA accumulation or downstream in the SAR signal transduction pathway. By contrast, probenazole and its derivative, 1,2-benzisothiazol-3(2H)-one1,1-dioxide (BIT), induce SAR by stimulating the SAR signaling pathway upstream of SA (Watanabe et al, 1979;Yoshioka et al, 2001;Nakashita et al, 2002b).…”