Salicylic acid (SA) is a key phyto-hormone that is essential for plant immunity. SARD1
(SYSTEMIC ACQUIRED RESISTANCE DEFICIENT 1), a member of the CBP60 …

Salicylic acid (SA) is an essential defence hormone in plants. Upon pathogen infection,
induced biosynthesis of SA is mediated by Isochorismate synthase 1 (ICS1), whose gene …

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is known for its psychoactive alkaloid nicotine, which presents
significant public health challenges. Recent research has linked the final stages of nicotine …

Genome editing is one of the most powerful tools for revealing gene function and improving
crop plants. Recently, RNA-guided genome editing using the type II clustered regularly …

Worldwide, approximately 1.1 billion people are smokers and more than 7 million people die
from the negative effects of smoking every year (WHO report, 2017). One of the main natural …

In the past decade, the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat paired
associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) mediated gene editing has been extensively utilized …

MYC2 is a class of bHLH family transcription factors and a major regulatory factor in the JA
signaling pathway, and its molecular function in tobacco has not been reported. In this study …

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is widely consumed globally and renowned for its
health benefits, including the reduction of cardiovascular disease and prostate cancer risk …

Pathogenesis-related proteins (PRs) are associated with the development of systemic
acquired resistance (SAR) against further infection enforced by fungi, bacteria and viruses …

For over 60 years, salicylic acid (SA) has been known as a plant immune signal required for
both basal and systemic acquired resistance (SAR). SA activates these immune responses …