Plants have evolved highly specific mechanisms to resist pathogens including preformed
barriers and the induction of elaborate signaling pathways. Induced signaling requires …

Plant diseases are a constant and serious threat to agriculture and ecological biodiversity.
Plants possess a sophisticated innate immunity system capable of detecting and responding …

Plant diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms remain a major limitation in many
crop production systems. Nonetheless, constitutive and inducible defense mechanisms …

Publisher Summary Plants constitute the largest and most important group of autotrophic life-
forms on earth. Their abundant organic material serves as a nutritional source for all …

Most plants are resistant to the majority of pathogens. Susceptibility is the exception to the
more common state of resistance, ie, being refractory to infection. However, plant pathogens …

Plants possess an elaborate multilayered defense system that relies on the intrinsic ability of
plant cells to perceive the presence of pathogens and trigger local and systemic responses …

More than 60 years ago, HH Flor proposed the “Gene-for-Gene” hypothesis, which
described the genetic relationship between host plants and pathogens. In the decades that …

Plants have an innate immunity system to defend themselves against pathogens. With the
primary immune system, plants recognize microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) …

Plants are under continuous threat of infection by pathogens endowed with diverse
strategies to colonize their host. Comprehensive biochemical and genetic approaches are …

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 …