Background Sheath blight is an important disease caused by Rhizoctonia cerealis that
affects wheat yields worldwide. No wheat varieties have been identified with high resistance …

Plants generally respond to herbivore attack by increasing resistance and decreasing
growth. This prioritization is achieved through the regulation of phytohormonal signaling …

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is constantly attacked by pathogens and insects. The most
efficient control strategy is to develop resistant varieties using broad‐spectrum gene …

Abstract BROWN PLANTHOPPER RESISTANCE14 (BPH14), the first planthopper
resistance gene isolated via map-based cloning in rice (Oryza sativa), encodes a coiled-coil …

A parasite-infected host may promote performance of associated insect vectors; but possible
parasite effects on nonvector insects have been largely unexplored. Here, we show that …

Key message SpWRKY3 was identified as a resistance gene to Phytophthora infestans from
Solanum pimpinellifolium L3708 and its transgenic tomato showed a significant resistance …

Abstract Background The brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) is one of the most serious
rice plant pests in Asia. N. lugens causes extensive rice damage by sucking rice phloem …

Drought is a key limiting factor for cotton (Gossypium spp.) production, as more than half of
the global cotton supply is grown in regions with high water shortage. However, the …

Signaling networks among multiple phytohormones fine-tune plant defense responses to
insect herbivore attack. Previously, it was reported that the synergistic combination of …

Powdery mildew is one of the most important fungal pathogen diseases. The genome of
barley mildew fungus, Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei (Bgh), encodes a large number of …