RNA silencing is a homology-dependent gene inactivation mechanism that regulates a wide
range of biological processes including antiviral defense. To deal with host antiviral …

A decade ago, the value of Nicotiana benthamiana as a tool for plant molecular biologists
was beginning to be appreciated. Scientists were using it to study plant-microbe and protein …

The allotetraploid plant Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco) is a major crop species and a
model organism, for which only very fragmented genomic sequences are currently available …

Plants offer fast, flexible and easily scalable alternative platforms for the production of
pharmaceutical proteins, but differences between plant and mammalian N‐linked glycans …

Background Most published genome sequences are drafts, and most are dominated by
computational gene prediction. Draft genomes typically incorporate considerable sequence …

Cell surface pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) activate immune responses that can
include the hypersensitive cell death. However, the pathways that link PRRs to the cell death …

In plants, RNA silencing plays a key role in antiviral defense. To counteract host defense,
plant viruses encode viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) that target different effector …

INTRODUCTION Immunogenic flagellin fragments are a signature of bacterial invasion in
both plants and animals. Plants recognize flagellin fragments via flagellin sensitive 2 (FLS2) …

Viral infections in plants threaten food security. Thus, simple and effective methods for virus
detection are required to adopt early measures that can prevent virus spread. However …

Nicotiana benthamiana is widely used as a model plant for dicotyledonous angiosperms. In
fact, the strains used in research are highly susceptible to a wide range of viruses …