The plant immune system has evolved to resist attack by pathogens and pests. However,
successful phytopathogens deliver effector proteins into plant cells where they hijack the …

A large number of pathogenic microorganisms cause rice diseases that lead to enormous
yield losses worldwide. Such losses are important because rice is a staple food for more …

Rice feeds more than half of the world's population. Rice blast, caused by the fungal
pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, and bacterial blight, caused by the bacterial pathogen …

Improving rice immunity is one of the most effective approaches to reduce yield loss by biotic
factors, with the aim of increasing rice production by 2050 amidst limited natural resources …

Rice blast is the most serious disease of cultivated rice and leads to very significant harvest
losses each year. Current research is aimed at understanding the biology of plant infection …

To adapt to each other, plants and insect herbivores have developed sophisticated
molecular interactions. Here, we summarize current knowledge about such molecular …

Magnaporthe oryzae is a hemibiotrophic fungus responsible for the economically
devastating and recalcitrant rice blast disease. However, the blast fungus is not only …

Majority of R genes cloned so far belong to the Nucleotide-Binding Site Leucine-Rich
Repeat (NBS-LRR) or LRR Kinase super-families [7]. NBS-LRR gene family organized in …

Rice is one of the most important food crops for mankind and suffers significant crop loss
annually due to rice diseases. Availability of genome sequences of rice has served as a …

Advances in studies of rice innate immunity have led to the identification and
characterization of host sensors encoding receptor kinases that perceive conserved …