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Sep 2026
From Antifungal Hydrolases to Modern Plant Immunity: Revisiting the Legacy of Boller.
The 1988 papers by Mauch, Mauch-Mani, Hadwiger and Boller on pea antifungal hydrolases captured a simple but powerful idea: plants can attack pathogens by directly targeting the structural polymers that hold their cell walls together. At that time, chitinases and β-1,3-glucanases were known to accumulate after infectio...
Ritu Singh, A. Laxalt
· Plant Physiology · 0 citations