Upland cotton is an important global cash crop for its long seed fibers and high edible oil
and protein content. Progress in cotton genomics promotes the advancement of cotton …

Verticillium dahliae is a notorious soil‐borne pathogen that enters hosts through the roots
and proliferates in the plant water‐conducting elements to cause Verticillium wilt …

Plants adapt to their ever-changing environment via positive and negative signals induced
by environmental stimuli. Drought stress, for instance, induces accumulation of the plant …

Ubiquitination modulates protein turnover or activity depending on the number and location
of attached ubiquitin (Ub) moieties. Proteins marked by a lysine 48 (K48)–linked …

Jasmonates (JAs), a class of lipid-derived stress hormones, play a crucial role across an
array of plant physiological processes and stress responses. Although JA signaling is …

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by microorganisms are considered promising
environmental-safety fumigants for controlling soil-borne diseases. Verticillium dahliae, a …

Fungal and oomycete pathogens secrete complex arrays of proteins and small RNAs to
interface with plant-host targets and manipulate plant regulatory networks to the microbes' …

The plant immune system perceives pathogens to trigger defense responses. In turn,
pathogens secrete effector molecules to subvert these defense responses. The initiation and …

Environmental stresses are ubiquitous in agricultural cultivation, and they affect the healthy
growth and development of edible tissues in passion fruit. The study of resistance …

Ubiquitination is an essential posttranslational modification and plays a crucial role in
regulating plant immunity by modulating protein activity, stability, abundance and interaction …