Understanding the plant immune system is crucial for using genetics to protect crops from
diseases. Plants resist pathogens via a two-tiered innate immune detection-and-response …

Plants and microbes interact with each other via different chemical signaling pathways. At
the risophere level, the microbes can secrete molecules, called elicitors, which act on their …

Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptor-mediated immunity includes rapid
production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and transcriptional reprogramming, which is …

The allotetraploid plant Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco) is a major crop species and a
model organism, for which only very fragmented genomic sequences are currently available …

Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) in plants involves a large family of nucleotide-binding
leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors, including Toll/IL-1 receptor-NLRs (TNLs) and …

Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors play a critical role in
defence against pathogens in plants and animals. However, we know very little about NLR …

The tobacco N gene confers resistance to tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and encodes a Toll‐
interleukin‐1 receptor/nucleotide binding site/leucine‐rich repeat (TIR‐NBS‐LRR) class …

The plant innate immune response includes the hypersensitive response (HR), a form of
programmed cell death (PCD). PCD must be restricted to infection sites to prevent the HR …

Many disease resistance (R) proteins of plants detect the presence of disease-causing
bacteria, viruses, or fungi by recognizing specific pathogen effector molecules that are …

The plant response to attempted infection by microbial pathogens is often accompanied by
rapid cell death in and around the initial infection site, a reaction known as the …