TL;DR
The plant immune system is composed of surveillance systems that perceive several general microbe elicitors, which allow plants to switch from growth and development into a defense mode, rejecting most potentially harmful microbes.
Microbial pathogens require nutrients and water to support their growth and proliferation. Pathogen-mediated resource acquisition is orchestrated by the secretion of virulence factors that have evolved a diversity of forms (from effector proteins to small toxins), but which have converged in function (resource acquisit...
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...
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...
Plants are constantly exposed to different biotic and abiotic stresses and, as sessile organisms, have evolved complex mechanisms to recognize and respond to adverse environmental conditions. Plant immunity involves different layers of recognition and signaling, including pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-t...
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...
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