The phrase "activate resistance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to encouraging or initiating a state of resistance, whether in a physical, metaphorical, or political sense.
Example: "The activists aimed to activate resistance against the proposed legislation that threatened their rights."
Alternatives: "incite opposition" or "trigger resistance".
In pepper leaves, the extract took only about 12 h to activate resistance against P. capsici.
The extracts were then tested on pepper leaves for the ability to activate resistance against P. capsici as described above.
After incubation, cultures were separately ground in a juice blender for 2 min before being used to test their ability to activate resistance.
Microorganisms capable of utilizing vegetable tissues for multiplication in soil were isolated, cultivated in liquid medium prepared from the same vegetable tissues, and tested for ability to activate resistance in pepper leaves against Phytophthora blight caused by Phytophthora capsici.
These results suggest that BTH can activate resistance in untreated leaves.
The ability to activate resistance as it is needed under controlled conditions has been verified for numerous plant pathogen interactions and it is considered to be a powerful mechanism providing protection against a wide range of parasites (see Bostock 2005 and references therein).
Among the 121 microorganisms isolated, a fungus Humicola phialophoroides showed distinct ability to produce substances capable of activating resistance.
Using the method developed in this study, 3 out of 121 isolates of microorganisms obtained from soils showed ability to produce substances capable of activating resistance in pepper leaves against infection by P. capsici.
For example, the Pik locus harbors multiple Pik alleles activating resistance to rice blast by recognizing different AvrPik haplotypes containing only one to three amino acid changes from one another (Yoshida et al. 2009; Kanzaki et al. 2012; Wu et al. 2014).
We also show over-expression of the CkTLP gene in transgenic Arabidopsis performed or activated resistance against V. dahliae, which affects more than 400 plant types and limits the crop yield especially in cotton [21].
Approaches to accurately and reproducibly measure multiple nodes in a pathway should allow identification of a tumor's oncogenic pathway addiction as well as highlight potential activated resistance pathways that may result in poor, or limited, response to therapy.
