Pathogenesis-related protein-5 (PR-5) has been implicated in plant disease resistance and
its antifungal activity has been demonstrated in some fruit species. However, their roles …

Phytophthora species are notorious pathogens of several economically important crop
plants. Several general elicitors, commonly referred to as Pathogen-Associated Molecular …

During their life cycle, plants have to cope with multiple abiotic and biotic stresses. Among
the most common biotic stressors, plant pathogens continue to challenge plant health and …

The sustainable production of foodstuff to nurse the increasing world population is a
foremost challenge for plant scientists, especially due to the dynamic and unpredictable …

Plants, unlike animals, lack specialized mobile immune cells, so they do not have an
adaptive immune system. Instead, plants can launch specific, self-tolerant immune …

One of the largest challenges of our time is to enhance agricultural production to feed a
growing population in the midst of a changing climate. According to estimates, the global …

Plants possess inducible defense mechanisms to protect themselves against attack by
microbial pathogens and herbivorous insects. The endogenous signaling molecules …

Physcomitrella patens is an emerging model system for functional studies of plant–pathogen
interactions. The ability to create gene knockouts and site‐specific mutations in any gene …

The plant immune system features numerous immune receptors localized on the cell surface
to monitor the apoplastic space for danger signals from a broad range of plant colonizers …