Saving the world's food supply constitutes one of the major challenges of the future. As a
complement to classical and molecular breeding technologies, novel strategies for …

During the co-evolutionary arms race between plants and pathogens, plants evolved a
sophisticated defense system to ward off their enemies. In this plant immune system, plant …

Highlights•Engineering new disease resistance traits in crops using structure-guided
methods.•Interspecies and intraspecies gene transfers provide multilayered immunity in …

Plant diseases are globally causing substantial losses in staple crop production,
undermining the urgent goal of a 60% increase needed to meet the food demand, a task …

Plants are engaged in a continuous co-evolutionary struggle for dominance with their
pathogens. The outcomes of these interactions are of particular importance to human …

Food security has become the most challenging task in the current scenario of population
growth and the future perspective in the everchanging environment. Cultivation and …

Plants are invaded by an array of pathogens of which only a few succeed in causing
disease. The attack by others is countered by a sophisticated immune system possessed by …

Diverse and rapidly evolving pathogens cause plant diseases and epidemics that threaten
crop yield and food security around the world. Research over the last 25 years has led to an …

Plants have the capacity to recognise and reject pathogens at various stages of their
attempted colonisation of the plant. Non-specific rejection often arises as a consequence of …

Plant diseases, caused by microbes, threaten world food, feed, and bioproduct security.
Plant resistance has not been effectively deployed to improve resistance in plants for lack of …