Plants produce a wide range of secondary metabolites that play vital roles for their primary
functions such as growth, defence, adaptations or reproduction. Some of the plant …

The plant immune system perceives pathogens to trigger defense responses. In turn,
pathogens secrete effector molecules to subvert these defense responses. The initiation and …

Plants are resistant to most microbial species due to nonhost resistance (NHR), providing
broad-spectrum and durable immunity. However, the molecular components contributing to …

Oomycete pathogens secrete hundreds of cytoplasmic RxLR effectors to modulate host
immunity by targeting diverse plant proteins. Revealing how effectors manipulate host …

Ubiquitination is an essential posttranslational modification and plays a crucial role in
regulating plant immunity by modulating protein activity, stability, abundance and interaction …

The K homology (KH) repeat is an RNA‐binding motif that exists in various proteins, some of
which participate in plant growth. However, the function of KH domain‐containing proteins in …

Main conclusion In a nutshell, tissue-specific CRISPR/Cas genome editing is the most
promising approach for crop improvement which can bypass the hurdle associated with …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the fourth largest food crop in the world. Late blight, caused
by oomycete Phytophthora infestans, is the most devastating disease threatening potato …

Compared with transcription and translation, protein degradation machineries can act faster
and be targeted to different subcellular compartments, enabling immediate regulation of …

Septoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by the ascomycete fungus Zymoseptoria tritici, is a major
threat to wheat production worldwide. The Z. tritici genome encodes many small secreted …