The hypersensitive defence response is found in all higher plants and is characterized by a
rapid cell death at the point of pathogen ingress. It is usually associated with pathogen …

Global environmental changes caused by natural and human activities have accelerated in
the past 200 years. The increase in greenhouse gases is predicted to continue to raise …

Viruses cause epidemics on all major cultures of agronomic importance, representing a
serious threat to global food security. As strict intracellular pathogens, they cannot be …

We report the draft genome of the black cottonwood tree, Populus trichocarpa. Integration of
shotgun sequence assembly with genetic map** enabled chromosome-scale …

Plant diseases can drastically abate the crop yields as the degree of disease outbreak is
getting severe around the world. Therefore, plant disease management has always been …

Plants are constantly being challenged by aspiring pathogens, but disease is rare. Why?
Broadly, there are three reasons for pathogen failure. Either (1) the plant is unable to support …

The tobacco N gene confers resistance to tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and encodes a Toll‐
interleukin‐1 receptor/nucleotide binding site/leucine‐rich repeat (TIR‐NBS‐LRR) class …

▪ Abstract In “gene-for-gene” interactions between plants and their pathogens,
incompatibility (no disease) requires a dominant or semidominant resistance (R) gene in the …

The study of plant diseases is almost as old as agriculture itself. Advancements in molecular
biology have given us much more insight into the plant immune system and how it detects …

▪ Abstract More than 30 genes have been characterized from different plant species that
provide resistance to a variety of different pathogen and pest species. The structures of most …