Plant NLRs get by with a little help from their friends

JM Feehan, B Castel, AR Bentham… - Current opinion in plant …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many plant NLR (nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat) immune receptors require other
NLRs for their function. In pairs of chromosomally adjacent sensor/helper NLRs, the sensor …

An overview of PRR-and NLR-mediated immunities: Conserved signaling components across the plant kingdom that communicate both pathways

CY Ramírez-Zavaleta, LJ García-Barrera… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cell-surface-localized pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and intracellular nucleotide-
binding domain and leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) are plant immune proteins that …

The N-terminally truncated helper NLR NRG1C antagonizes immunity mediated by its full-length neighbors NRG1A and NRG1B

Z Wu, L Tian, X Liu, W Huang, Y Zhang, X Li - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Both plants and animals utilize nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat immune receptors
(NLRs) to perceive the presence of pathogen-derived molecules and induce immune …

Prediction of NB‐LRR resistance genes based on full‐length sequence homology

G Andolfo, JC Dohm, H Himmelbauer - The Plant Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The activation of plant immunity is mediated by resistance (R)‐gene receptors, also known
as nucleotide‐binding leucine‐rich repeat (NB‐LRR) genes, which in turn trigger the …

Comparison of tomato transcriptomic profiles reveals overlapping patterns in abiotic and biotic stress responses

CG Amoroso, D D'Esposito, R Aiese Cigliano… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Until a few years ago, many studies focused on the transcriptomic response to single
stresses. However, tomato cultivations are often constrained by a wide range of biotic and …

Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity

X Han, K Tsuda - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
There are pieces of evidence from genomic footprints and fossil records indicating that
plants have co-evolved with microbes after terrestrialization for more than 407 million years …

Multilevel evolution shapes the function of NB-LRR encoding genes in plant innate immunity

MR Ercolano, D D'Esposito, G Andolfo… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A sophisticated innate immune system based on diverse pathogen receptor genes (PRGs)
evolved in the history of plant life. To reconstruct the direction and magnitude of evolutionary …

Large-scale gene gains and losses molded the NLR defense arsenal during the Cucurbita evolution

G Andolfo, CS Sánchez, J Cañizares, MB Pico… - Planta, 2021 - Springer
Main conclusion Genome-wide annotation reveals that the gene birth–death process of the
Cucurbita R family is associated with a species-specific diversification of TNL and CNL …

The tomato interspecific NB-LRR gene arsenal and its impact on breeding strategies

G Andolfo, N D'Agostino, L Frusciante, MR Ercolano - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a model system for studying the molecular basis of
resistance in plants. The investigation of evolutionary dynamics of tomato resistance (R)-loci …

[PDF][PDF] Towards grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) mildews resistance: Molecular defence mechanisms and New Breeding Technologies

C Villano, R Aversano - Italus Hortus, 2020 - soihs.it
One of the main challenges for viticulture is to sustainably maintain the production of
highquality grape varieties in the face of climate change. Current models predict an …