The role of the cell wall in plant immunity

Role of cell wall-associated kinases in plant development and defense responses

Plant life is coordinated by several developmental and defense associated mechanisms and cell wall is actively important in these mechanisms. The plant cell wall also serves as an important component system that monitors plant growth and defense apart from only protecting the cell. However, resident sensors of the plan...

Pathogen-Induced Cell Wall Remodeling and Immune Signaling in Plants

The plant cell wall is a primary barrier to pathogen invasion and a dynamic extracellular interface involved in defense signaling. During infection, pathogens remodel the wall through cell wall-degrading enzymes and effectors, whereas plants reinforce the wall and perceive wall-derived damage-associated molecular patte...

Mechanisms and balanced regulation of plant immunity.

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...

Deciphering plant–pathogen interaction with single‐cell omics

This review summarizes the technological developments in plant single‐cell omics and highlights their unique advantages for investigating nearly all stages of plant–pathogen interactions, and proposes a potential strategy for breeding crop varieties with cell‐type‐specific resistance.

Plant immune co-receptors: bridging gaps toward next-generation crop defense

Plant innate immunity is a crucial, multi-layered defense system that protects crops from a wide range of bacterial, fungal, and viral pathogens, all of which pose a significant threat to global food security. Co-receptors function as central molecular modulators that amplify and fine-tune immune signaling. This signal...