Plants have evolved in an environment rich with microorganisms that are eager to capitalize
on the plants' biosynthetic and energy-producing capabilities. There are approximately 450 …

Genetic engineering offers a means of incorporating new virus resistance traits into existing
desirable plant cultivars. The initial attempts to create transgenes conferring virus resistance …

Late blight, caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans, is the most
devastating disease for potato cultivation. Here, we describe the positional cloning of the Rpi …

Key message Genome-wide association analysis in tropical and subtropical maize
germplasm revealed that MLND resistance is influenced by multiple genomic regions with …

Plant intracellular nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich repeat-containing receptors
(NLRs) activate a robust immune response upon detection of pathogen effectors. How NLRs …

Plants respond to pathogens using an innate immune system that is broadly divided into PTI
(pathogen-associated molecular pattern-or PAMP-triggered immunity) and ETI (effector …

In tomato, infections by tomato mosaic virus are controlled by durable Tm-2 2 resistance. In
order to gain insight into the processes underlying disease resistance and its durability, we …

The effects of selection on genome variation were investigated and visualized in tomato
using a high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array. 7,720 SNPs were …

To obtain virus-resistant host plants, a range of operational strategies can be followed
nowadays. While for decades plant breeders have been able to introduce natural resistance …

Plants use both cell surface-resident pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and intracellular
nucleotide binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors to detect various pathogens. Plant …