Pests and diseases pose a threat to food security, which is nowadays aggravated by climate
change and globalization. In this context, agricultural policies demand innovative …

Many disease resistance (R) proteins of plants detect the presence of disease-causing
bacteria, viruses, or fungi by recognizing specific pathogen effector molecules that are …

The most represented group of resistance genes are those of the nucleotide binding site–
leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) class. These genes are very numerous in the plant genome …

Plants have evolved a sophisticated innate immune system to recognize invading
pathogens and to induce a set of host defense mechanisms resulting in disease resistance …

We carried out transcriptional profiling analysis in 10-d-old Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings
treated with oligogalacturonides (OGs), oligosaccharides derived from the plant cell wall, or …

In nature, roots of healthy plants are colonized by multikingdom microbial communities that
include bacteria, fungi, and oomycetes. A key question is how plants control the assembly of …

We performed large-scale mRNA expression profiling using an Affymetrix GeneChip to study
Arabidopsis responses to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. The interactions …

Background The covalent attachment of ubiquitin to a substrate protein changes its fate.
Notably, proteins typically tagged with a lysine48-linked polyubiquitin chain become …

Plant disease-resistance (R) proteins are thought to function as receptors for ligands
produced directly or indirectly by pathogen avirulence (Avr) proteins. The biochemical …

In the absence of adaptive immunity displayed by animals, plants respond locally to biotic
challenge via inducible basal defense networks activated through recognition and response …