Thirty years of resistance: Zig-zag through the plant immune system

BPM Ngou, P Ding, JDG Jones - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the plant immune system is crucial for using genetics to protect crops from
diseases. Plants resist pathogens via a two-tiered innate immune detection-and-response …

Return of the Lemnaceae: duckweed as a model plant system in the genomics and postgenomics era

K Acosta, KJ Appenroth, L Borisjuk, M Edelman… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The aquatic Lemnaceae family, commonly called duckweed, comprises some of the smallest
and fastest growing angiosperms known on Earth. Their tiny size, rapid growth by clonal …

Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana

JG Monroe, T Srikant, P Carbonell-Bejerano, C Becker… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Since the first half of the twentieth century, evolutionary theory has been dominated by the
idea that mutations occur randomly with respect to their consequences. Here we test this …

Plant NLR diversity: the known unknowns of pan-NLRomes

AC Barragan, D Weigel - The Plant Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Plants and pathogens constantly adapt to each other. As a consequence, many members of
the plant immune system, and especially the intracellular nucleotide-binding site leucine …

[HTML][HTML] EDS1 signalling: At the nexus of intracellular and surface receptor immunity

JA Dongus, JE Parker - Current opinion in plant biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The conserved lipase-like protein EDS1 transduces signals from pathogen-activated
intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors to transcriptional …

The origin and evolution of salicylic acid signaling and biosynthesis in plants

X Jia, L Wang, H Zhao, Y Zhang, Z Chen, L Xu, K Yi - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Salicylic acid (SA) plays a pivotal role in plant response to biotic and abiotic stress. Several
core SA signaling regulators and key proteins in SA biosynthesis have been well …

Origins and immunity networking functions of EDS1 family proteins

D Lapin, DD Bhandari, JE Parker - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The EDS1 family of structurally unique lipase-like proteins EDS1, SAG101, and PAD4
evolved in seed plants, on top of existing phytohormone and nucleotide-binding–leucine …

Concerted expansion and contraction of immune receptor gene repertoires in plant genomes

BPM Ngou, R Heal, M Wyler, MW Schmid, JDG Jones - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Recent reports suggest that cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors function
synergistically to activate robust defence against pathogens, but whether they co-evolve is …

Molecular innovations in plant TIR-based immunity signaling

D Lapin, O Johanndrees, Z Wu, X Li, JE Parker - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A protein domain (Toll and Interleukin-1 receptor [TIR]-like) with homology to animal TIRs
mediates immune signaling in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Here, we present an overview of …

An angiosperm NLR Atlas reveals that NLR gene reduction is associated with ecological specialization and signal transduction component deletion

Y Liu, Z Zeng, YM Zhang, Q Li, XM Jiang, Z Jiang… - Molecular plant, 2021 - cell.com
Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich-repeat (NLR) genes comprise the largest family of plant
disease-resistance genes. Angiosperm NLR genes are phylogenetically divided into the …