The plant immune system: from discovery to deployment

JDG Jones, BJ Staskawicz, JL Dangl - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Plant diseases cause famines, drive human migration, and present challenges to
agricultural sustainability as pathogen ranges shift under climate change. Plant breeders …

NLR receptors in plant immunity: making sense of the alphabet soup

MP Contreras, D Lüdke, H Pai, AA Toghani… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Plants coordinately use cell‐surface and intracellular immune receptors to perceive
pathogens and mount an immune response. Intracellular events of pathogen recognition are …

The genome and population genomics of allopolyploid Coffea arabica reveal the diversification history of modern coffee cultivars

J Salojärvi, A Rambani, Z Yu, R Guyot, S Strickler… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Coffea arabica, an allotetraploid hybrid of Coffea eugenioides and Coffea canephora, is the
source of approximately 60% of coffee products worldwide, and its cultivated accessions …

[HTML][HTML] Efficiency of microbial bio-agents as elicitors in plant defense mechanism under biotic stress: A review

A Zehra, NA Raytekar, M Meena, P Swapnil - Current Research in Microbial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerous harmful microorganisms and insect pests have the ability to cause plant
infections or damage, which is mostly controlled by toxic chemical agents. These chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Systems biology of plant-microbiome interactions

PA Rodriguez, M Rothballer, SP Chowdhury… - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
In natural environments, plants are exposed to diverse microbiota that they interact with in
complex ways. While plant–pathogen interactions have been intensely studied to …

Genomic features of bacterial adaptation to plants

A Levy, I Salas Gonzalez, M Mittelviefhaus… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Plants intimately associate with diverse bacteria. Plant-associated bacteria have ostensibly
evolved genes that enable them to adapt to plant environments. However, the identities of …

Modularity in jasmonate signaling for multistress resilience

GA Howe, IT Major, AJ Koo - Annual review of plant biology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The plant hormone jasmonate coordinates immune and growth responses to increase plant
survival in unpredictable environments. The core jasmonate signaling pathway comprises …

Microbial hub taxa link host and abiotic factors to plant microbiome variation

MT Agler, J Ruhe, S Kroll, C Morhenn, ST Kim… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Plant-associated microorganisms have been shown to critically affect host physiology and
performance, suggesting that evolution and ecology of plants and animals can only be …

Navigating complexity to breed disease-resistant crops

R Nelson, T Wiesner-Hanks, R Wisser… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Plant diseases are responsible for substantial crop losses each year and pose a threat to
global food security and agricultural sustainability. Improving crop resistance to pathogens …

Mechanisms to mitigate the trade-off between growth and defense

TL Karasov, E Chae, JJ Herman, J Bergelson - The Plant Cell, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Plants have evolved an array of defenses against pathogens. However, mounting a defense
response frequently comes with the cost of a reduction in growth and reproduction, carrying …