Wheat’s Gb3 Gene Revealed as a Rare Kinase Fusion That Stops Aphids Cold
Researchers have cloned the wheat greenbug resistance gene Gb3, revealing a unique intracellular kinase-pseudokinase protein that deters aphid feeding by ...
Tag: Plant immunity
Wheat’s Greenbug Shield Traced to a Rare Kinase Fusion Protein
Researchers have cloned the wheat greenbug resistance gene Gb3 from Aegilops tauschii and shown it encodes an active kinase fused ...
One Gene Swap Gives Peas Powerful New Defense Against Devastating Fusarium Wilt
Researchers have identified PsFwC9, a single dominant pea gene whose one amino acid change confers strong resistance to Fusarium wilt ...
Engineering Plant Immune Receptors to Build Durable, Broad-Spectrum Crop Resistance
A new Nature Reviews Bioengineering review charts how structural biology, gene transfer and AI-assisted protein design are turning plant immune ...
Sugar Tags on Plant Enzymes Decide Between Fungal Defense and Growth
Researchers discovered that a single N-glycan at asparagine 137 determines whether paralogous plant chitinases amplify or extinguish chitin immune signalling, ...
Rotten-Egg Gas Arms Wheat Against Rust by Switching On Cellular Recycling
New research shows that hydrogen sulfide enhances wheat resistance to stripe rust by persulfidating the autophagy protein TaATG6c, thereby activating ...
Viral Protein Weakens Rice Cell Walls, Boosting Virus Infection but Blocking Insect Pests
A protein encoded by rice grassy stunt virus remodels rice cell walls by reducing cellulose and increasing lignin, making plants ...
WRKY Gene Family’s Role in Cucurbita Moschata Resistance
In the latest groundbreaking research published in BMC Genomics, scientists have conducted a comprehensive genome-wide analysis of the WRKY gene ...
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