Plants coordinately use cell‐surface and intracellular immune receptors to perceive
pathogens and mount an immune response. Intracellular events of pathogen recognition are …

Over the past three decades, significant progress has been made in the field of resistance
(R) gene cloning. Advances in recombinant DNA technology, genome sequencing …

Plant pathogens cause recurrent epidemics, threatening crop yield and global food security.
Efforts to retool the plant immune system have been limited to modifying natural components …

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 …

While working for the United States Department of Agriculture on the North Dakota
Agricultural College campus in Fargo, North Dakota, in the 1940s and 1950s, Harold H. Flor …

Exocytosis plays an important role in plant–microbe interactions, in both pathogenesis and
symbiosis. Exo70 proteins are integral components of the exocyst, an octameric complex …

Factors including climate change and increased global exchange are set to escalate the
prevalence of plant diseases, posing an unprecedented threat to global food security and …

Crop yield and global food security are under constant threat from plant pathogens with the
potential to cause epidemics. Traditional breeding for disease resistance can be too slow to …

Bioengineering of plant immune receptors has emerged as a key strategy for generating
novel disease resistance traits to counteract the expanding threat of plant pathogens to …

The specific recognition of pathogen effectors by intracellular nucleotide-binding and
leucine-rich repeat domain receptors (NLRs) is an important component of plant immunity …