Plant pathogenic fungi

G Doehlemann, B Ökmen, W Zhu… - The fungal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi have developed a plethora of strategies to colonize plants, and these interactions
result in a broad spectrum of outcomes ranging from beneficial interactions to death of the …

Synthetic plant defense elicitors

Y Bektas, T Eulgem - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
To defend themselves against invading pathogens plants utilize a complex regulatory
network that coordinates extensive transcriptional and metabolic reprogramming. Although …

Variation in the AvrSr35 gene determines Sr35 resistance against wheat stem rust race Ug99

A Salcedo, W Rutter, S Wang, A Akhunova, S Bolus… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) causes wheat stem rust, a devastating fungal disease.
The Sr35 resistance gene confers immunity against this pathogen's most virulent races …

Two for all: receptor-associated kinases SOBIR1 and BAK1

TWH Liebrand, HA van den Burg, MHAJ Joosten - Trends in plant science, 2014 - cell.com
Leucine-rich repeat-receptor-like proteins (LRR-RLPs) are ubiquitous cell surface receptors
lacking a cytoplasmic signalling domain. For most of these LRR-RLPs, it remained enigmatic …

Bifurcation of Arabidopsis NLR Immune Signaling via Ca2+-Dependent Protein Kinases

X Gao, X Chen, W Lin, S Chen, D Lu, Y Niu, L Li… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat (NLR) protein complexes sense infections
and trigger robust immune responses in plants and humans. Activation of plant NLR …

How to build a pathogen detector: structural basis of NB-LRR function

FLW Takken, A Goverse - Current opinion in plant biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Many plant disease resistance (R) proteins belong to the family of nucleotide-binding-
leucine rich repeat (NB-LRR) proteins. NB-LRRs mediate recognition of pathogen-derived …

Plant innate immunity: perception of conserved microbial signatures

B Schwessinger, PC Ronald - Annual review of plant biology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Plants and animals sense conserved microbial signatures through receptors localized to the
plasma membrane and cytoplasm. These receptors typically carry or associate with non …

Signaling events in plants: stress factors in combination change the picture

CM Prasch, U Sonnewald - Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2015 - Elsevier
Being sessile organisms, plants are constantly exposed to various kinds of environmental
stimuli. To survive under unfavorable environmental conditions they have evolved strategies …

The E3 ligase APIP10 connects the effector AvrPiz-t to the NLR receptor Piz-t in rice

CH Park, G Shirsekar, M Bellizzi, S Chen… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Although nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins are the major
immune receptors in plants, the mechanism that controls their activation and immune …

Nuclear pore permeabilization is a convergent signaling event in effector-triggered immunity

Y Gu, SG Zebell, Z Liang, S Wang, BH Kang, X Dong - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Nuclear transport of immune receptors, signal transducers, and transcription factors is an
essential regulatory mechanism for immune activation. Whether and how this process is …