Climate change and a rising world population make generation of crops with enhanced
abiotic stress tolerance and higher nutritive value a priority objective in agriculture. In this …

The metabolic interdependence, interactions, and coordination of functions between
chloroplasts and mitochondria are established and intensively studied. However, less is …

The oxidative stress response is required for plant pathogens to endure host-derived
oxidative stress during infection. Previously, we identified the eight transcription factors (TFs) …

As sessile organisms, plants have to cope with environmental change and numerous biotic
and abiotic stress. Upon perceiving environmental cues and stress signals using different …

Auxin-induced callus formation was largely dependent on the function of Lateral Organ
Boundaries Domain (LBD) family transcription factors. We previously revealed that two IGMT …

Microplastics generated from the fragmentation of plastic polymers constitute one of the
emergent pollutants invading both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Microplastics pose …

The NLR (nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat) class immune receptor Sw-5b confers
resistance to Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV). Although Sw-5b is known to …

Plants possess a multi-layered immune system (Zhang et al., 2020). Upon pathogen
infection, plasma membrane-localized pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) recognize …

Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm) bacteria cause banana Xanthomonas wilt
(BXW), the most destructive disease of bananas in East and Central Africa. During early …

Vector-borne bacterial plant diseases have a tremendous impact on agriculture around the
world. These pathogens infect a myriad of crops, from solanaceous crops such as potato …