The threat of the combined effect of biotic and abiotic stress factors in forestry under a changing climate

DT Teshome, GE Zharare, S Naidoo - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plants encounter several biotic and abiotic stresses, usually in combination. This results in
major economic losses in agriculture and forestry every year. Climate change aggravates …

The road to resistance in forest trees

S Naidoo, B Slippers, JM Plett, D Coles… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, forests have been exposed to an unprecedented rise in pests and
pathogens. This, coupled with the added challenge of climate change, renders forest …

Conserved biochemical defenses underpin host responses to oomycete infection in an early-divergent land plant lineage

P Carella, A Gogleva, DJ Hoey, AJ Bridgen, SC Stolze… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
The expansion of plants onto land necessitated the evolution of robust defense strategies to
protect against a wide array of microbial invaders. Whereas host responses to microbial …

JrWRKY21 interacts with JrPTI5L to activate the expression of JrPR5L for resistance to Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in walnut

R Zhou, Y Dong, X Liu, S Feng, C Wang, X Ma… - The Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Walnut (Juglans regia L.) anthracnose, induced by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, is a
catastrophic disease impacting the walnut industry in China. Although WRKY transcription …

Genome-wide analyses of cassava Pathogenesis-related (PR) gene families reveal core transcriptome responses to whitefly infestation, salicylic acid and jasmonic …

ML Irigoyen, DC Garceau, A Bohorquez-Chaux… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Whiteflies are a threat to cassava (Manihot esculenta), an important staple food
in many tropical/subtropical regions. Understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating …

Functional and morphological evolution in gymnosperms: a portrait of implicated gene families

AR De La Torre, A Piot, B Liu, B Wilhite… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gymnosperms diverged from their sister plant clade of flowering plants 300 Mya.
Morphological and functional divergence between the two major seed plant clades involved …

[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide analyses of cassava Pathogenesis-related (PR) gene families reveal core

ML Irigoyen, DC Garceau… - BMC genomics, 2020 - scholar.archive.org
Background: Whiteflies are a threat to cassava (Manihot esculenta), an important staple food
in many tropical/subtropical regions. Understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating …

Mass spectrometry‐based forest tree metabolomics

AM Rodrigues, C Miguel, I Chaves… - Mass spectrometry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research in forest tree species has advanced slowly when compared with other agricultural
crops and model organisms, mainly due to the long‐life cycles, large genome sizes, and …

Transcriptional profiling reveals conserved and species-specific plant defense responses during the interaction of Physcomitrium patens with Botrytis cinerea

G Reboledo, AD Agorio, L Vignale… - Plant Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Key message Evolutionary conserved defense mechanisms present in extant bryophytes
and angiosperms, as well as moss-specific defenses are part of the immune response of …

RNA-seq, de novo transcriptome assembly and flavonoid gene analysis in 13 wild and cultivated berry fruit species with high content of phenolics

V Thole, JE Bassard, R Ramírez-González, M Trick… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Flavonoids are produced in all flowering plants in a wide range of tissues
including in berry fruits. These compounds are of considerable interest for their biological …