Improving rice immunity is one of the most effective approaches to reduce yield loss by biotic
factors, with the aim of increasing rice production by 2050 amidst limited natural resources …

Plants are sessile organisms and rely on both preformed defenses and their innate immune
system to ward off microbial pathogens. For example, the cell wall and cuticle can act as …

A large number of pathogenic microorganisms cause rice diseases that lead to enormous
yield losses worldwide. Such losses are important because rice is a staple food for more …

Advances in studies of rice innate immunity have led to the identification and
characterization of host sensors encoding receptor kinases that perceive conserved …

Rice feeds more than half of the world's population. Rice blast, caused by the fungal
pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, and bacterial blight, caused by the bacterial pathogen …

Plant resistance (R) proteins perceive specific pathogen effectors from diverse plant
pathogens to initiate defense responses, designated effector-triggered immunity (ETI). Plant …

Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) is an effective layer of plant defense initiated upon
recognition of avirulence (Avr) effectors from pathogens by cognate plant disease resistance …

The plant immune system has evolved to resist attack by pathogens and pests. However,
successful phytopathogens deliver effector proteins into plant cells where they hijack the …

Highlights•Two novel substrates for OsCERK1 revealed two chitin signaling pathways in
rice.•In vivo cleavage and nuclear translocation of Xa21 are required for its resistance.•Pairs …

A subset of plant intracellular NLR immune receptors detect effector proteins, secreted by
phytopathogens to promote infection, through unconventional integrated domains which …