Message in a bubble: shuttling small RNAs and proteins between cells and interacting organisms using extracellular vesicles

Q Cai, B He, S Wang, S Fletcher, D Niu… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Communication between plant cells and interacting microorganisms requires the secretion
and uptake of functional molecules to and from the extracellular environment and is …

Small RNAs–big players in plant-microbe interactions

CY Huang, H Wang, P Hu, R Hamby, H Jin - Cell host & microbe, 2019 - cell.com
Eukaryotic small RNAs (sRNAs) are short non-coding regulatory molecules that induce RNA
interference (RNAi). During microbial infection, host RNAi machinery is highly regulated and …

Bidirectional cross-kingdom RNAi and fungal uptake of external RNAs confer plant protection

M Wang, A Weiberg, FM Lin, BPHJ Thomma… - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
Aggressive fungal pathogens such as Botrytis and Verticillium spp. cause severe crop
losses worldwide. We recently discovered that Botrytis cinerea delivers small RNAs (Bc …

Fungal effectors and plant susceptibility

L Lo Presti, D Lanver, G Schweizer… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Plants can be colonized by fungi that have adopted highly diverse lifestyles, ranging from
symbiotic to necrotrophic. Colonization is governed in all systems by hundreds of secreted …

Understanding sheath blight resistance in rice: the road behind and the road ahead

KA Molla, S Karmakar, J Molla, P Bajaj… - Plant biotechnology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rice sheath blight disease, caused by the basidiomycetous necrotroph Rhizoctonia solani,
became one of the major threats to the rice cultivation worldwide, especially after the …

The kinase LYK5 is a major chitin receptor in Arabidopsis and forms a chitin-induced complex with related kinase CERK1

Y Cao, Y Liang, K Tanaka, CT Nguyen, RP Jedrzejczak… - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Chitin is a fungal microbe-associated molecular pattern recognized in Arabidopsis by a lysin
motif receptor kinase (LYK), AtCERK1. Previous research suggested that AtCERK1 is the …

Transcriptional regulation of pattern-triggered immunity in plants

B Li, X Meng, L Shan, P He - Cell host & microbe, 2016 - cell.com
Perception of microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) by cell-surface-resident
pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) induces rapid, robust, and selective transcriptional …

RNA interference mechanisms and applications in plant pathology

C Rosa, YW Kuo, H Wuriyanghan… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The origin of RNA interference (RNAi), the cell sentinel system widely shared among
eukaryotes that recognizes RNAs and specifically degrades or prevents their translation in …

Inducible overexpression of Ideal Plant Architecture1 improves both yield and disease resistance in rice

M Liu, Z Shi, X Zhang, M Wang, L Zhang, K Zheng… - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Breeding crops with resistance is an efficient way to control diseases. However, increased
resistance often has a fitness penalty. Thus, simultaneously increasing disease resistance …

LTR-retrotransposons in plants: Engines of evolution

L Galindo-González, C Mhiri, MK Deyholos… - Gene, 2017 - Elsevier
LTR retrotransposons are the most abundant group of transposable elements (TEs) in
plants. These elements can fall inside or close to genes, and therefore influence their …