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Faced with accelerating climate change and rapid population growth, we need crops with higher yields and greater resilience to ensure food security. Crop ...

Cell-surface-localized pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) recognizing microbe-derived or plant-endogenous molecules play central roles in various ...

Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) are a fundamental staple for millions of people and serve as feed and foodstock. Tuber formation starts from underground ...

Fungal interactions with plant roots, either beneficial or detrimental, have a crucial impact on agriculture and ecosystems. The cosmopolitan plant pathogen ...

Fusarium oxysporum causes Fusarium wilt disease in many agricultural important crops. To understand how the fungus manipulates its hosts we identify the ...

Membrane trafficking and organelle biogenesis play important roles in plant growth and development, as well as responses to external signals. The plant ...

The chloroplast antioxidant system is a network of enzymes and non-enzymatic components, which detoxifies reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antagonizes their ...

Specificity in cell signaling is paramount to plant responses to specific environmental changes. Although calcium is a ubiquitous messenger in plant responses ...

The expansion of gene families via duplication is a characteristic feature of plant genomes and presents a major challenge for assigning biological functions ...

The necrotrophic fungal pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Ptr) is the causal agent of tan spot, a significant foliar disease of wheat worldwide. Ptr is ...