Plants cannot move to escape environmental challenges. Biotic stresses result from a
battery of potential pathogens: fungi, bacteria, nematodes and insects intercept the …

Animals and plants have NLRs (nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors) that
recognize the presence of pathogens and initiate innate immune responses. In plants, there …

Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract, which is
thought to result from the effect of environmental factors in a genetically predisposed host. A …

The flagellum is an important virulence factor for bacteria pathogenic to animals and plants.
Here we demonstrate that plants have a highly sensitive chemoperception system for …

The Arabidopsis genome contains∼ 200 genes that encode proteins with similarity to the
nucleotide binding site and other domains characteristic of plant resistance proteins …

Plants have developed effective mechanisms to recognize and respond to infections caused
by pathogens. Plant resistance gene analogs (RGAs), as resistance (R) gene candidates …

Brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens Stål, is one of the most devastating insect
pests of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Currently, 30 BPH-resistance genes have been genetically …

Apaf-1 and Nod1 are members of a protein family, each of which contains a caspase
recruitment domain (CARD) linked to a nucleotide-binding domain, which regulate …

More than 50 years ago, Harold Flor, working with flax and the flax rust fungus, defined plant–
pathogen interactions genetically, producing the gene-for-gene hypothesis1. This classic …

A thorough understanding of quantitative disease resistance (QDR) would contribute to the
design and deployment of durably resistant crop cultivars. However, the molecular …