Global food security is threatened by rice blast disease caused by the filamentous fungus
Magnaporthe oryzae. An understanding of rice resistance mechanisms is fundamental to …

Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins play critical roles in plant immunity.
However, how NLRs are regulated and activate defense signaling is not fully understood …

Rice blast and bacterial blight are important diseases of rice (Oryza sativa) caused by the
fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) …

Phenolamides (PAs), a diverse group of specialized metabolites, including
hydroxycinnamoylputrescine (HP), hydroxycinnamoylagmatine, and …

Normally, when different species of herbivorous arthropods feed on the same plant this
leads to fitness-reducing competition. We found this to be different for two of Asia's most …

Abstract Background Bowman-Birk inhibitors (BBI) are a family of serine-type protease
inhibitors that modulate endogenous plant proteolytic activities during different phases of …

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 …

Transcriptional re-programming in host and pathogen upon leaf and neck infection is an
evolving area of research for the rice blast community. Analysis of in planta rice …

Apolygus lucorum is currently a main pest of cotton in China. In this study, the expression of
trypsin-like enzyme AlSP4 gene and corresponding protein in A. lucorum was confirmed to …

RAD51 and BRCA2 are conserved proteins involved in homology-directed DNA double-
strand break (DSB) repair. This form of DSB repair occurs in somatic cells and is also the …