The plant immune system: From discovery to deployment
University of East Anglia · Sainsbury Laboratory · +4 more institutions
Abstract
Plant diseases cause famines, drive human migration, and present challenges to agricultural sustainability as pathogen ranges shift under climate change. Plant breeders discovered Mendelian genetic loci conferring disease resistance to specific pathogen isolates over 100 years ago. Subsequent breeding for disease resistance underpins modern agriculture and, along with the emergence and focus on model plants for genetics and genomics research, has provided rich resources for molecular biological exploration over the last 50 years. These studies led to the identification of extracellular and intracellular receptors that convert recognition of extracellular microbe-encoded molecular patterns or intracellular…
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3Topics & keywords
- Biology
- Immune system
- Software deployment
- Plant system
- Computational biology
- Biotechnology
- Immunology
- Engineering
- Zero hunger