Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies ...

John Innes Centre researchers took a comparative evolutionary approach, using the diversity of Pseudomonas syringae bacteria, to determine how this pathogen infects distantly related plants.

on the plant cell’s surface recognizes pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) released by invaders—say, the flagellar proteins from pathogenic bacteria. This jump-starts signaling pathways ...

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Biologists have identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism.

“Bacterial pathogens live in the spongey air space inside a leaf, and that space is pretty dry,” Dangl said. Bacteria need moisture to grow but they can’t breach the cell wall to directly access the ...

New research has identified crucial components and mechanisms of the plant immune system, potentially helping to develop ...

Plants encounter a wide range of pathogens, like bacteria that sneak in through leaf surface pores or fungi that directly invade plant "skin" cells. Since plant cells are stationary, when they ...

What is a plant pathogen? Like animals, plants are susceptible to infection by organisms like fungi, bacteria and viruses. Many plant pathogens are microfungi, which are practically invisible to t ...