The study of plant diseases is almost as old as agriculture itself. Advancements in molecular
biology have given us much more insight into the plant immune system and how it detects …

Understanding the plant immune system is crucial for using genetics to protect crops from
diseases. Plants resist pathogens via a two-tiered innate immune detection-and-response …

Plant disease resistance can be triggered by specific recognition of microbial effectors by
plant nucleotide binding-leucine rich repeat (NB-LRR) receptors. Over the last few years …

Highlights•Plant NLRs recognize intracellular effectors, inducing cell death and
resistance.•NLRs exhibit diverse localization and modes of effector recognition.•The …

As in nearly every discipline of plant biology, new insights are constantly changing our
understanding of plant immunity. It is now clear that plant immunity is controlled by two …

In plants, many of the innate immune receptors or disease resistance (R) proteins contain a
NB-LRR (Nucleotide-binding site, Leucine-rich repeat) structure. The recent findings …

The first plant disease resistance (R) genes were identified and cloned more than two
decades ago. Since then, many more R genes have been identified and characterized in …

As plants are sessile, they have evolved hundreds of resistance (R) genes to defend
themselves against multiple pathogens. Most of plant R genes encode proteins with the …

While working for the United States Department of Agriculture on the North Dakota
Agricultural College campus in Fargo, North Dakota, in the 1940s and 1950s, Harold H. Flor …

To successfully colonise plants, pathogens must circumvent the plant immune system.
Intracellular immune receptors of the nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) class of …