Engineering plant immunity: from nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptor functional mechanisms to practical applications
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Plants employ a two-tiered immune system to defend against pathogen invasion. While understanding immune activation mechanisms is crucial for designing disease-resistant crops, evolutionary divergence often imposes functional constraints on the deployment of immune receptors across distantly related species. Recent research by Du et al. (Cell, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.028 ) has addressed this issue, overcoming restricted taxonomic functionality and enabling the broader utilization of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs).
Source: Phytopathology Research
Author: You-Liang Peng
Institution: China Agricultural University
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414524280