Plant in general,and fruit in particular,can defend themselves against pathogens by genetically determined defence mechanisms,expressed either constitutively or induced as a consequence of a biotic or abiotic factors. The early phase of plant response to wounding is critic because a rapid and efficient deployment of defence responses can prevent further pathogen invasion limiting pathogen establishment and colonization.Wound responses in plant have been extensively studied and it has been hypothesized that plant have evolved mechanisms that integrate both pathogen-specific and general wounding responses.Wounding regulates a number of genes that are associated with a pathogen-specific response, indicating that innate and pathogen-specific responses share a number of components in their signalling pathways