Table 5.

Role of Trichoderma spp. genes which act as elicitors in resistance induction in different plants against R. solani.

Protein/molecule	Enzyme	Gene	Plant	Trichoderma spp.	References
Proteins	Endochitinase	chit42	Tobacco	T. harzianum	Lorito et al., 1998
	Endochitinase	ThEn-42	Tobacco	T. harzianum	Lorito et al., 1998
	Expressed sequence tags	Epl1	Rice, soybean	T. asperellum	Liu et al., 2010
	Endopolygalacturonase	Thpg1	Arabidopsis	T. harzianum	Morán-Diez et al., 2009
	Expressed sequence tags	Epl1	N.A.	T. atroviride	Seidl et al., 2006
	Mitogen-activated protein kinase	tmkA	Cucumber	T. virens	Viterbo et al., 2005
	Xylanase	TasXyn29.4	Popular	T. asperellum	Guo et al., 2021
	Xylanase	TasXyn24.2	Popular	T. asperellum	Guo et al., 2021
Chromatin remodeler	Helicase-related protein	ipa-1	Arabidopsis	T. virens	Estrada-Rivera et al., 2020
Cerato-platanins	Small extracellular cysteine-rich proteins	Sm1 and Ep11	Cotton	T. virens, T. atroviride	Djonović et al., 2006
Transferase	4-Phosphopantetheinyl transferase	ppt1	Arabidopsis	T. virens	Velázquez-Robledo et al., 2011
Cellulase	Endoglucanases, exoglucanases, and β-glucosidases	N.A.	Tobacco, lima bean, corn cultures	T. viride	Aidemark et al., 2010
Protease	Aspartyl protease	N.A.	Cucumber	T. virens	Viterbo et al., 2004
Protease	Serine protease	tvsp1	Cotton	T. virens	Pozo et al., 2004
Chitinase	Endochitinase	N.A.	Cotton, rice		Kumar et al., 2009; Shah et al., 2009
Trichothecene	Trichodermin and harzianum A	N.A.	Tomato	T. arundinaceum	Malmierca et al., 2012
Class II hydrophobin family	Hydrophobin	tvhydii1	Arabidopsis	T. virens, T. atroviride and T. reesei	Guzmán-Guzmán et al., 2017

N.A., not available.