Understanding the plant immune system is crucial for using genetics to protect crops from
diseases. Plants resist pathogens via a two-tiered innate immune detection-and-response …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) has developed into an indispensable approach to
gene function analysis in a wide array of species, many of which are not amenable to stable …

Although much is known about plant traits that function in nonhost resistance against
pathogens, little is known about nonhost resistance against herbivores, despite its …

Abstract Analysis of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) small RNA data sets revealed the
presence of a regulatory cascade affecting disease resistance. The initiators of the cascade …

Plant diseases can drastically abate the crop yields as the degree of disease outbreak is
getting severe around the world. Therefore, plant disease management has always been …

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

▪ Abstract Much of plant physiology, growth, and development is controlled by the selective
removal of short-lived regulatory proteins. One important proteolytic pathway involves the …

Biotrophic fungal plant pathogens establish an intimate relationship with their host to support
the infection process. Central to this strategy is the secretion of a range of protein effectors …

Virus‐induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a recently developed gene transcript suppression
technique for characterizing the function of plant genes. The approach involves cloning a …

Vascular wilt diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens are among the most devastating
plant diseases worldwide. The Verticillium genus includes vascular wilt pathogens with a …