Tag: Plant immunity

A review describes how RXLR effectors from the potato late blight pathogen target multiple immune and cellular processes that support ...

A review synthesizing evidence across plant species presents wall-associated kinases as shared sensors that connect cell-wall remodeling with growth, stress ...

A transcriptomic, microscopy and functional study of Neophysopella tropicalis identified 303 candidate effectors, including six that suppressed AvrB-triggered plant cell ...

An Arabidopsis study identifies six NIK receptor kinases as signal-propagating components of phytocytokine receptor complexes and links their phosphorylation to ...

An abstract of a greenhouse experiment reports that 5-minute cold argon plasma-activated water treatment was associated with reduced ToBRFV symptoms, ...

A multi-isolate association study in synthetic hexaploid wheat found a chromosome 3D region linked to reduced blotch necrosis against four ...

Researchers identified the transcription factor CsWRKY40 as a candidate regulator linked to Bacillus subtilis-mediated reduction of anthracnose symptoms in sweet ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize-winning optogenetics technology is now being adapted to probe plant immune signaling, screen novel insecticides, and guide ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a scalable microbial platform that converts raw chitin into chitobiose, a biostimulant ...

A rapeseed transcription factor called BnabZIP1 boosts resistance to bacterial pathogens in Arabidopsis while paradoxically increasing susceptibility to necrotrophic fungi, ...

Researchers have identified TlCDA, a chitin deacetylase from the wheat common bunt pathogen Tilletia laevis, as a key virulence factor ...

Researchers at Aarhus University have discovered that a plant receptor called CHIP13 acts as a molecular measuring tape, using a ...

Cauliflower mosaic virus uses its P6 pathogenicity factor to recruit Arabidopsis deubiquitinases UBP12 and UBP13, which remove repressive histone marks ...

An engineered Rhizobium rhizogenes strain called AS109 enables efficient transient gene expression across diverse dicot crop species, opening rapid functional ...

A sweeping review maps the transcriptional, post-transcriptional, translational and post-translational switches that could let scientists program broad-spectrum disease resistance into ...

Salk Institute scientists discovered that the plant cell surface receptor SRF3 coordinates iron homeostasis and immune responses through ubiquitin-dependent reorganization, ...

Researchers at Hainan University combined transcriptomics, network analysis, and machine learning to show how Bacillus safensis strain H23 primes tomato ...

Czech researchers have used ion mobility-assisted mass spectrometry imaging to map stress phytohormones directly across intact Arabidopsis leaves infected with ...

New metabolomic research reveals that 24-epibrassinolide protects postharvest kiwifruit from Botrytis cinerea by triggering a three-phase reprogramming of defense-related metabolism.

A new study reveals that the regulatory protein GacS acts as a master switch in Pseudomonas fluorescens, coordinating antibiotic production ...