Plant diseases cause famines, drive human migration, and present challenges to
agricultural sustainability as pathogen ranges shift under climate change. Plant breeders …

Rice sheath blight disease, caused by the basidiomycetous necrotroph Rhizoctonia solani,
became one of the major threats to the rice cultivation worldwide, especially after the …

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated plant transformation is the most dominant technique
for the transformation of plants. It is used to transform monocotyledonous and …

Diverse and rapidly evolving pathogens cause plant diseases and epidemics that threaten
crop yield and food security around the world. Research over the last 25 years has led to an …

Plant sensing of invading pathogens triggers massive metabolic reprogramming, including
the induction of secondary antimicrobial compounds known as phytoalexins. We recently …

Abstract 'New'memories are initially labile and sensitive to disruption before being
consolidated into stable long-term memories,,,,. Much evidence indicates that this …

▪ Abstract Rapid generation of superoxide and accumulation of H2O2 is a characteristic
early feature of the hypersensitive response following perception of pathogen avirulence …

Plant diseases can drastically abate the crop yields as the degree of disease outbreak is
getting severe around the world. Therefore, plant disease management has always been …

The rice Xa21 gene, which confers resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae race 6,
was isolated by positional cloning. Fifty transgenic rice plants carrying the cloned Xa21 gene …

Crop heterogeneity is a possible solution to the vulnerability of monocultured crops to
disease,,. Both theory and observation, indicate that genetic heterogeneity provides greater …