“…Similar proteins, endo-P-1,3-glucanases, endochitinases, and TLPs, are known to be related to the mechanism for plant disease resistance (Carr and Klessig, 1989;Bol et al, 1990;Collinge et al, 1993;Stintzi et al, 1993) and are therefore classified as PR proteins. Proteins similar to PR proteins are also induced by other conditions unrelated to pathogen induction, such as ethylene (Boller et al, 1983), UV light (Yalpani et al, 1994), ozone (Ernst et al, 1992;Karenlampi et al, 1994;Yalpani et al, 1994), high salt (Esaka et al, 1994), heat (Margis-Pinheiro et al, 1994), phytotoxic metals (Jacobsen et al, 1992), and wounding (Zhang and Punja, 1994). Cold-induced accumulation of chitinase has been observed in barley (Tronsmo et al, 1993) and bermudagrass (Gatschet et al, 1996).…”