Verticillium dahliae is a soil-borne hemibiotrophic fungus that can lead to plant vascular
disease and significant economic loss worldwide. Its hosts include over 400 dicotyledon …

Plant diseases, caused by microbes, threaten world food, feed, and bioproduct security.
Plant resistance has not been effectively deployed to improve resistance in plants for lack of …

Plant diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes pose an increasing threat to food security
and ecosystem health worldwide. These filamentous pathogens, while taxonomically …

Drought and Verticillium wilt disease are two main factors that limit cotton production, which
necessitates the identification of key molecular switch to simultaneously improve cotton …

Endophytic bacteria associated with medicinal plants possess unique strategies that
enhance growth and suvival of host plants, many of which are mediated by distinctive …

Verticillium wilt causes massive annual losses of cotton yield, but the mechanism of cotton
resistance to Verticillium dahliae is complex and poorly understood. In this study, a …

Plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are important players in response to pathogen infections.
Verticillium and Fusarium wilts, caused by Verticillium dahliae (Vd) and Fusarium …

Long noncoding RNA s (lnc RNA s) have several known functions in plant development, but
their possible roles in responding to plant disease remain largely unresolved. In this study …

Drought stress negatively affects plant growth and limits plant productivity. Genes
functioning in plant responses to drought stress are essential for the development of drought …

Highlights•Receptor like proteins (RLPs) regulate developmental and defense mechanisms
in plants.•RLPs acting as immunoreceptors form highly diverged receptor families in different …