The resistance of crops against diseases is constrained by the number of resistance genes. Recent studies revealed that the lectin receptor-like kinases (LecRLKs) function as novel pattern recognition receptors or trigger chloroplast ROS burst. Some LecRLK alleles confer resistance to multiple fungal diseases, demonstrating LecRLKs are emerging as immune hubs.

Climate warming poses increasing thermal challenges to plants, yet how plasma membrane biophysics contributes to heat adaptation remains poorly understood. In this work, we showed that the malectin-li...

Plant-microbe research offers many choices of model and strain and whether a field-first or lab-first approach is best. However, differences between l…

Pre-zygotic interspecific incompatibility prevents hybridization between species limiting interbreeding strategies for crop improvement using wild relatives. The Brassica rapa female self-incompatibil...

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In this study maize chloroplastic malate dehydrogenase7 (ZmMDH7), is identified as a Rhizoctonia solani resistance gene in maize. ZmMDH7 is regulated by transcription factor ZmWRKY44 via pathogens ch...

We found that the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum secretes an apoplastic effector that disrupts N-glycosylation of the maize immune receptor ZmLecRK1, leading to its degradation by selective auto...

In controlled greenhouse conditions, Arabidopsis thaliana plants with a hyperactive allele of the ACD6 gene have stronger pathogen defenses but are smaller and make fewer seeds, in a classic fitness t...