In their natural environment, plants are part of a rich ecosystem including numerous and
diverse microorganisms in the soil. It has been long recognized that some of these microbes …

Crop disease remains a major problem to global food production. Excess use of pesticides
through chemical disease control measures is a serious problem for sustainable agriculture …

Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that regulate the expression of target genes by
binding to specific cis-elements in promoter regions. Transcriptional regulators (TRs) also …

Crops feed the world's population and shape human civilization. The improvement of crop
productivity has been ongoing for almost 10,000 years and has evolved from an experience …

Quantitative resistance (QR) refers to a resistance that is phenotypically incomplete and is
based on the joined effect of several genes, each contributing quantitatively to the level of …

Maize is the world's most produced crop, providing food, feed, and biofuel. Maize production
is constantly threatened by the presence of devastating pathogens worldwide …

Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) is a worldwide distributed virus that has a very wide host range
and causes significant crop losses of many economically important crops, including potato …

To optimize fitness, plants must efficiently allocate their resources between growth and
defense. Although phytohormone crosstalk has emerged as a major player in balancing …

Roots are important organs for plant survival. In recent years, clear differences between
roots and shoots in their respective plant defense strategies have been highlighted. Some …

STAT5B is often mutated in hematopoietic malignancies. The most frequent STAT5B
mutation, Asp642His (N642H), has been found in over 90 leukemia and lymphoma patients …