Plants confront multifarious environmental stresses widely divided into abiotic and biotic
stresses, of which heavy metal stress represents one of the most damaging abiotic stresses …

Being sessile, plants rely on intricate signaling pathways to mount an efficient defense
against external threats while maintaining the cost balance for growth. Transcription factors …

Rice blast is a devastating disease caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae that
threatens rice production around the world. The fungus produces a specialized infection cell …

Plants constantly face a plethora of abiotic and biotic stresses in their natural habitat.
Adapting to such changes requires a great degree of phenotypic plasticity that is mainly …

Pathogen attack sequentially confers pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered
immunity (ETI) after sensing of pathogen patterns and effectors by plant immune receptors …

Members of the complex family of WRKY transcription factors have been implicated in the
regulation of transcriptional reprogramming associated with plant immune responses …

Plants have evolved sophisticated systems to cope with herbivore challenges. When plants
perceive herbivore-derived physical and chemical cues, such as elicitors in insects' oral …

Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are conserved protein kinases in eukaryotes that
establish signaling modules where MAPK kinase kinases (MAPKKKs) activate MAPK …

It has been almost 20 years since the first report of a WRKY transcription factor, SPF1, from
sweet potato. Great progress has been made since then in establishing the diverse …

Plant pathogen attacks are perceived through pathogen-issued compounds or plant-derived
molecules that elicit defense reactions. Despite the large variety of elicitors, general …