Molecular Aspects Revealed by Omics Technologies Related to the Defense System Activation in Fruits in Response to Elicitors: A Review

Fruit losses and wastage are mainly due to postharvest diseases; their control is reduced with pesticides. The excessive use of synthetic fungicides has caused harmful effects on human health the environment, so it therefore necessary reduce use. development new innocuous strategies led compounds natural or biological origin capacity induce plant defense system, which improves fruit’s response against future pathogen attacks in addition reducing incidence diseases. These known as “elicitors”. Although molecular tools such RT-qPCR measurement enzymatic activity markers makes possible determine activation system application an elicitor compound, recent years, omics technologies transcriptome, proteome, metabolome have provided interesting information that helps elucidate aspects involved elicitors. This review summarizes advances aspects, highlighting contribution a better understanding fruit mechanisms induced by different