Plants have evolved effective mechanisms to protect themselves against multiple stresses,
and employ jasmonates (JAs) as vital defence signals to defend against pathogen infection …

Verticillium wilt is a vascular disease causing tremendous damage to cotton production
worldwide. However, our knowledge of the mechanisms of cotton resistance or susceptibility …

Many toxic secondary metabolites produced by phytopathogens can subvert host immunity,
and some of them are recognized as pathogenicity factors. Fusarium head blight and …

Improving genetic resistance is a preferred method to manage Verticillium wilt of cotton and
other hosts. Identifying host resistance is difficult because of the dearth of resistance genes …

Background Plant lipoxygenase (LOX) genes are members of the non-haeme iron-
containing dioxygenase family that catalyze the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids into …

Salicylic acid (SA) and brassinosteroids (BRs) are well known to regulate diverse processes
of plant development and stress responses, but the mechanisms by which these …

Primary metabolism plays an important role in plant growth and development, however the
relationship between primary metabolism and the adaptive immune response is largely …

Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases (CRKs) play critical roles in responses to biotic and
abiotic stresses. However, the molecular mechanisms of CRKs in plant defense responses …

RNA interference (RNAi), is a powerful new technology in the discovery of genetic sequence
functions, and has become a valuable tool for functional genomics of cotton (Gossypium …

Verticillium wilt will seriously affect cotton yield and fiber quality. BEL1-Like transcription
factors are involved in the regulation of secondary cell wall (SCW) formation, especially the …