Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), microbe-associated molecular patterns
(MAMPs), herbivore-associated molecular patterns (HAMPs), and damage-associated …

Plants contain a sophisticated innate immune network to prevent pathogenic microbes from
gaining access to nutrients and from colonizing internal structures. The first layer of inducible …

Summary mi RNA s contribute to plant resistance against pathogens. Previously, we found
that the function of miR398b in immunity in rice differs from that in Arabidopsis. However, the …

Structural biology has the potential to illuminate the evolution of pathogen effectors and their
commonalities that cannot be readily detected at the primary sequence level. Recent …

There is an array of pathogenic fungi in the natural environment of plants, which produce
some molecules including pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and effectors …

Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most
destructive diseases of rice worldwide. The rice–M. oryzae pathosystem has become a …

Fusarium oxysporum is an important soilborne fungal pathogen with many different formae
speciales that can colonize the plant vascular system and cause serious crop wilt disease …

Rice production needs to be sustained in the coming decades, as the changeable climatic
conditions are becoming more conducive to disease outbreaks. The majority of rice …

Verticillium dahliae is a wide-host-range fungal pathogen that causes soil-borne disease in
hundreds of dicotyledonous hosts. In search of V. dahliae Vd991 cell death-inducing …

Plant immunity inducers represent a new and rapidly developing field in plant-protection
research. In this paper, we discuss recent research on plant immunity inducers and their …