A key question is how to use knowledge about plant immunity to devise methods to combat crop diseases. Plants express a ...

Molecules boosting plant immunity identified Date: July 7, 2022 Source: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Summary: Researchers have discovered natural cellular molecules that drive ...

"We aim to improve our understanding of this process." Scientists make surprising discovery about plants that may transform ...

Plants lack what’s known as adaptive immunity, such as the cells found in animals that learn from meeting a new microbial foe and are ready to leap into action when they face it again.

A study published last month in Nature Plants describes shared biochemical pathways involved in vitamin B6 levels that link human neurological health and plant immunity in ways that may teach us ...

AZ11 helps prime the plant to build up its immunity by generating additional salicylic acid. Azelaic acid's role as a signal in plant immunity represents a significant discovery because it is ...

image: KAUST plant scientists have revealed the role that the regulatory protein OXI1 plays in anti-pathogen immunity in plants. In this image, the plant specimens overexpressed OXI1, which ...

An enzyme critical to plant immunity has been found to be activated in a previously unknown way, according to new research. The enzyme, the NAPDH oxidase RBOHD, triggers a rapid generation of ...

Mythological nymphs reincarnate as a group of corn smut proteins to launch a battle on maize immunity. One of these proteins appears to stand out among its sister Pleiades, much like its namesake ...