Plants are obliged to defend themselves against a wide range of biotic and abiotic stresses.
Complex regulatory signaling networks mount an appropriate defense response depending …

Plants are constantly threatened by a wide array of microbial pathogens. Pathogen invasion
can lead to vast yield losses and the demand for sustainable plant-protection strategies has …

Complex defense signaling pathways, controlled by different hormones, are involved in the
reaction of plants to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stress factors. We studied the ability of …

… De Vleesschauwer, unpublished data). Although rice has a flagellin receptor, OsFLS2, flg22
induces only a very weak immune response without cell death in cultured rice cells (Takai et …

Selected strains of nonpathogenic rhizobacteria can reduce disease in foliar tissues through
the induction of a defense state known as induced systemic resistance (ISR). Compared …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) and gibberellins (GAs) are two groups of phytohormones that regulate
many common developmental processes throughout the plant life cycle. Fueled by large-…

Surveillance of the extracellular environment by immune receptors is of central importance to
eukaryotic survival. The rice receptor kinase XA21, which confers robust resistance to most …

Recent advances in plant immunity research underpin the pivotal role of small-molecule
hormones in regulating the plant defense signaling network. Although most of our …

The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is involved in an array of plant processes, including
the regulation of gene expression during adaptive responses to various environmental cues. …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are a unique class of plant steroid hormones that orchestrate myriad
growth and developmental processes. Although BRs have long been known to protect …