Innate immunity in plants: an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens.
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Journal Article
For many years, research on a suite of plant defense responses that begin when plants are exposed to general microbial elicitors was underappreciated, for a good reason: There has been no critical experimental demonstration of their importance in mediating plant resistance during pathogen infection. Today, these microbial elicitors are named pathogen- or microbe-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs or MAMPs) and the plant responses are known as PAMP-triggered immunity (PTI). Recent studies provide an elegant explanation for the difficulty of demonstrating the role of PTI in plant disease resistance. It turns out that the important contribution of PTI to disease resistance is masked by pathogen virulence effectors that have evolved to suppress it.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Boller, T; He, SY
Published Date
- May 2009
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 324 / 5928
Start / End Page
- 742 - 744
PubMed ID
- 19423812
Pubmed Central ID
- 19423812
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1095-9203
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0036-8075
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1126/science.1171647
Language
- eng