In natural or agricultural environments, plants are constantly exposed to a wide range of
biotic and abiotic stresses. Given the forecasted global climate changes, plants will cope …

Plants under natural environment facing various pathogens, tend to produce defense to
maintain their fitness and minimize pathogenic damage. Plant-pathogens interaction is …

The novel classes of plant pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins identified during the last
decade also include novel peptide families. This review specifically focuses on these …

Providing a fast growing world population with sufficient food while preserving ecological
and energy resources of our planet is one of the biggest challenges in this century …

Effective plant defense strategies rely in part on the perception of non-self determinants, so-
called microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs), by transmembrane pattern …

Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) or greening is a devastating disease of citrus worldwide and no
effective control measure is currently available. Plant defense activators environmentally …

Plant behaviours are defined as rapid morphological or physiological responses to events,
relative to the lifetime of an individual. Since Darwin, biologists have been aware that plants …

The production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by the consumption of molecular oxygen
during host–pathogen interactions is termed the oxidative burst. The most important ROS …

The oil palm, an economically important tree, has been one of the world's major sources of
edible oil and a significant precursor of biodiesel fuel. Unfortunately, it now faces the threat …

Late blight (LB), caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, and early blight (EB),
caused by the fungi Alternaria solani and A. tomatophila, are two common and destructive …