The identity of plant host genetic factors controlling the composition of the plant microbiota
and the extent to which plant genes affect associated microbial populations is currently …

Diverse communities of bacteria inhabit plant leaves and roots and those bacteria play a
crucial role for plant health and growth. Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model to study …

Identifying the factors that influence the outcome of host–microbial interactions is critical to
protecting biodiversity, minimizing agricultural losses and improving human health. A few …

The induction of plant defences and their subsequent suppression by insects is thought to be
an important factor in the evolutionary arms race between plants and herbivores. Although …

Insect attack triggers changes in transcript level in plants that are mediated predominantly by
jasmonic acid (JA). The implication of ethylene (ET), salicylic acid (SA), and other signals in …

Rhizobacteria–induced systemic resistance (ISR) and pathogen-induced systemic acquired
resistance (SAR) have a broad, yet partly distinct, range of effectiveness against pathogenic …

Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) is a widely used technique in microbial community
analysis, allowing the quantification of the number of target genes in a community sample. …

Transcript patterns elicited in response to attack reveal, at the molecular level, how plants
respond to aggressors. These patterns are fashioned both by inflicted physical damage as well …

Plants are colonized by a variety of bacteria, most of which are not pathogenic. Currently,
the plant responses to phyllosphere commensals or to pathogen infection in the presence of …

Ecological, evolutionary and molecular models of interactions between plant hosts and
microbial pathogens are largely based around a concept of tightly coupled interactions between …