Chemical Camera Captures Plant Hormone Warfare During Bacterial Attack
Czech researchers have used ion mobility-assisted mass spectrometry imaging to map stress phytohormones directly across intact Arabidopsis leaves infected with ...
Tag: plant immunity
Brassinosteroid Treatment Rewires Kiwifruit Metabolism to Fight Gray Mold
New metabolomic research reveals that 24-epibrassinolide protects postharvest kiwifruit from Botrytis cinerea by triggering a three-phase reprogramming of defense-related metabolism.
One Master Switch: How a Soil Bacterium Coordinates Warfare and Microbiome Reshaping
A new study reveals that the regulatory protein GacS acts as a master switch in Pseudomonas fluorescens, coordinating antibiotic production ...
Wheat’s Gb3 Gene Revealed as a Rare Kinase Fusion That Stops Aphids Cold
Researchers have cloned the wheat greenbug resistance gene Gb3, revealing a unique intracellular kinase-pseudokinase protein that deters aphid feeding by ...
Wheat’s Greenbug Shield Traced to a Rare Kinase Fusion Protein
Researchers have cloned the wheat greenbug resistance gene Gb3 from Aegilops tauschii and shown it encodes an active kinase fused ...
One Gene Swap Gives Peas Powerful New Defense Against Devastating Fusarium Wilt
Researchers have identified PsFwC9, a single dominant pea gene whose one amino acid change confers strong resistance to Fusarium wilt ...
Engineering Plant Immune Receptors to Build Durable, Broad-Spectrum Crop Resistance
A new Nature Reviews Bioengineering review charts how structural biology, gene transfer and AI-assisted protein design are turning plant immune ...
Sugar Tags on Plant Enzymes Decide Between Fungal Defense and Growth
Researchers discovered that a single N-glycan at asparagine 137 determines whether paralogous plant chitinases amplify or extinguish chitin immune signalling, ...
Rotten-Egg Gas Arms Wheat Against Rust by Switching On Cellular Recycling
New research shows that hydrogen sulfide enhances wheat resistance to stripe rust by persulfidating the autophagy protein TaATG6c, thereby activating ...
Viral Protein Weakens Rice Cell Walls, Boosting Virus Infection but Blocking Insect Pests
A protein encoded by rice grassy stunt virus remodels rice cell walls by reducing cellulose and increasing lignin, making plants ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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