“…Among the signals contributing to SAR are salicylic acid (SA) and several components of the SA pathway including the methylated derivative of SA (methyl SA,MeSA, Park et al, 2007 ). Additionally, the diterpenoid dehydroabietinal (DA, Chaturvedi et al, 2012 ), the nine carbon (C9) dicarboxylic acid azelaic acid (AzA, Jung et al, 2009 ), an amino acid derivative pipecolic acid (Pip; Návarová et al, 2012 ), auxin ( Truman et al, 2010 ), the phosphorylated sugar glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P, Chanda et al, 2011 ; Mandal et al, 2012 ; Yu et al, 2013 ), the free radicals nitric oxide (NO) and reactive oxygen species (ROS; Wang et al, 2014a ; El-Shetehy et al, 2015 ), galactolipids ( Gao et al, 2014 ), factors contributing to cuticle formation ( Xia et al, 2009 , 2010 , 2012 ) and the lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) DIR1 (Defective in Induced Resistance, Maldonado et al, 2002 ) and AZI1 (AzA insensitive, Jung et al, 2009 ), have all been proposed to serve as SAR signals. Here, we review the role of SA in SAR and discuss its relationship to these various SAR signals.…”