Plant immunity requires two-step detection of invaders
Channel: TheSainsburyLab
Date: 2021-03-12

Cell-surface and intracellular receptors of plants work together to activate a strong defence against bacterial pathogens. Scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory made this exciting discovery. This new knowledge will help the development of new crops that are resistant to disease, reducing the need for chemical treatments.

Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Pingtao Ding & Jonathan D. G. Jones. Mutual potentiation of plant immunity by cell-surface and intracellular receptors. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03315-7

Minhang Yuan, Zeyu Jiang, Guozhi Bi, Kinya Nomura, Menghui Liu, Yiping Wang, Boying Cai, Jian-Min Zhou, Sheng Yang He & Xiu-Fang Xin. Pattern-recognition receptors are required for NLR-mediated plant immunity. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03316-6  

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