Background Plants are hotbeds for parasites such as arthropod herbivores, which acquire
nutrients and energy from their hosts in order to grow and reproduce. Hence plants are …

Endophytic fungi colonize interior plant tissue and mostly form mutualistic associations with
their host plant. Plant-endophyte interaction is a complex mechanism and is currently a …

Salicylic acid (SA) is an essential hormone in plant immunity, but its receptor has remained
elusive for decades. The transcriptional coregulator NPR1 is central to the activation of SA …

Colletotrichum fructicola causes a broad range of plant diseases worldwide and secretes
many candidate proteinous effectors during infection, but it remains largely unknown …

We sequenced and assembled the draft genome of Theobroma cacao, an economically
important tropical-fruit tree crop that is the source of chocolate. This assembly corresponds …

Induction of plant defense (s) against pathogen challenge (s) has been the object of
progressively more intense research in the past two decades. Insights on mechanisms of …

Simple Summary Plants form beneficial symbioses with endophytes, arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi, and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. In addition to their role in plant growth and development …

Plants and animals maintain evolutionarily conserved innate immune systems that give rise
to durable resistances. Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) confers plant-wide immunity …

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mediated protein secretion and quality control have been
shown to play an important role in immune responses in both animals and plants. In …

Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) encodes a multifunctional protein P6 that is required for
translation of the 35S RNA and also acts as a suppressor of RNA silencing. Here we …