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 …

Understanding plant pathogen interactions using spatial and single-cell technologies

J Zhu, A Moreno-Pérez, G Coaker - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Plants are in contact with diverse pathogens and microorganisms. Intense investigation over
the last 30 years has resulted in the identification of multiple immune receptors in model and …

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals heterogeneity in plant responses to the environment: a focus on biotic and abiotic interactions

R Tenorio Berrío, M Dubois - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Biotic and abiotic environmental cues are major factors influencing plant growth and
productivity. Interactions with biotic (eg symbionts and pathogens) and abiotic (eg changes …

Plant NLR immunity activation and execution: a biochemical perspective

F Locci, JE Parker - Open Biology, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Plants deploy cell-surface and intracellular receptors to detect pathogen attack and trigger
innate immune responses. Inside host cells, families of nucleotide-binding/leucine-rich …

Time-resolved single-cell and spatial gene regulatory atlas of plants under pathogen attack

T Nobori, A Monell, TA Lee, J Zhou, J Nery, JR Ecker - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Plant leaf intercellular space provides a nutrient-rich and heterogeneous niche for microbes
that critically impacts plant health. However, how individual plant cells respond to …

Unraveling plant–microbe symbioses using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

K Serrano, F Tedeschi, SU Andersen… - Trends in Plant Science, 2024 - cell.com
Plant–microbe symbioses require intense interaction and genetic coordination to
successfully establish in specific cell types of the host and symbiont. Traditional RNA-seq …

Till death do us pair: Co-evolution of plant–necrotroph interactions

MC Derbyshire, S Raffaele - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Plants use programmed cell death as a potent defense response against biotrophic
pathogens that require living host cells to thrive. However, cell death can promote infection …

Light controls mesophyll-specific post-transcriptional splicing of photoregulatory genes by AtPRMT5

Y Yan, H Luo, Y Qin, T Yan, J Jia, Y Hou, Z Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Light plays a central role in plant growth and development, providing an energy source and
governing various aspects of plant morphology. Previous study showed that many …

A rare PRIMER cell state in plant immunity

T Nobori, A Monell, TA Lee, Y Sakata, S Shirahama… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Plants lack specialized and mobile immune cells. Consequently, any cell type that
encounters pathogens must mount immune responses and communicate with surrounding …

Advances in the application of single-cell transcriptomics in plant systems and synthetic biology

MT Islam, Y Liu, MM Hassan, PE Abraham… - BioDesign …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Plants are complex systems hierarchically organized and composed of various cell types. To
understand the molecular underpinnings of complex plant systems, single-cell RNA …