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Cell Death Regulator BI-1 Emerges as Key Switch in Plant Immunity Against Oomycete Pathogens

Scientists studying how plants fend off one of agriculture’s most destructive groups of pathogens have uncovered a molecular switch that sits at the crossroads of cellular stress a...

How a Plant Hormone Switches On Immunity: New Clues From Salicylic Acid Receptors

For decades, salicylic acid has been known as the chemical alarm bell of the plant world. When pathogens attack, levels of this simple hormone surge through leaves and stems, switc...

A fungus is threatening the world’s food supply. Scientists just found a new defense

Scientists have discovered a potential new weapon against a devastating fungus that threatens rice, wheat, and barley worldwide. By engineering a special type of plant immune recep...

Can a plant’s own defence system change the legacy it leaves in the soil?

Duo Chen, University of Konstanz in Germany, discusses her article: Induced resistance of plants reduces their negative soil-legacy effects on natives but not on naturalized aliens...

Turning a phage anti-defense weapon into an immunity trigger

by Anna B. Adelstein, Naama Aviram Most bacterial immune systems raise an alarm when they sense a phage. A new study in PLOS Biology shows how type II Panoptes reverses this logic...

Mapping the Dynamic Plant Interactome: New Quantitative In Vivo Approaches Emerge

Every process that keeps a plant alive—from the immune responses that fend off pathogens to the signaling cascades that help roots find water—depends on proteins physically tou...

Tomato Gene SlXTH3 Opens the Door for Devastating Bacterial Wilt Pathogen

Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the most destructive plant diseases in the world, striking tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and hundr...

Inside the Silent War Over Plant Sap: How Aphids Outsmart Crop Defenses

Aphids are among the most economically destructive agricultural pests on the planet, and a sweeping new review published in BMC Agriculture argues that the key to finally controlli...

How plants unwittingly help fungal pathogens

Infecting a maize plant is no simple task for a fungal pathogen such as Ustilago maydis. A group of researchers led by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has now uncovered...

Stinky Leaf Plant Yields Tiny Nanoparticles Packed With Anti-Inflammatory Cargo

Researchers isolated exosome-like nanoparticles from the medicinal vine Paederia foetida and found they carry five anti-inflammatory terpenoids and 1,170 microRNAs predicted to tar...

New multi-omics study reveals wheat QTL TaFhb-6A conferring scab resistance

A devastating fungal disease that can wipe out wheat harvests and poison the grain we eat has met a formidable new opponent. Scientists in China have developed a novel wheat line,...

Engineered Rhizobium Strain Opens Transient Gene Expression to Diverse Crops

An engineered Rhizobium rhizogenes strain called AS109 enables efficient transient gene expression across diverse dicot crop species, opening rapid functional genomics to non-model...

Root-dwelling bacterium shields mulberries from gray mold while boosting growth

Beneath the soil of a millennium-old mulberry grove in China, scientists have recovered a bacterium that may rewrite how one of the world’s oldest crops defends itself agains...

Intestinal lipid metabolism controls molecular and behavioral immunity through NHR-68 and gut–brain signaling in <i&g...

by Jie Ren, Yu Sang, Young-Mo Kim, Ernesto S. Nakayasu, Alejandro Aballay Animals must allocate limited energetic resources across competing defense programs in response to infect...

Hidden Microbes Inside Mung Bean Show Striking Stress Tolerance and Fungal-Fighting Power

Deep inside the seeds and roots of Ethiopia’s mung bean plants, researchers have uncovered a collection of bacteria that may reshape how farmers protect and grow crops in some of t...

Edel Pérez-López: Fighting Plant Diseases with Genomics and AI

Botany One interviews Dr Edel Pérez-López, a researcher combining plant pathology, genomics and artificial intelligence to develop more resilient crops and sustainable disease mana...

Recognition of pathogenic bacteria by intestinal stem cells promotes adult <i>Drosophila</i> midgut regenera...

by Bhavin Uttekar, Marie Srotyr, Sanket Sudam Ravale, Liliana Ewertowska, Rebecca Wafer, Martina Legido, Parthive H. Patel When enteropathogenic bacteria breach the intestinal epi...

Coordinated P450–UGT detoxification contributes to furanocoumarin tolerance associated with host plant range divergence...

by Huidong Wang, Yajie Kong, Xinyue Su, Yu Shi, Jianpeng Zhang, Yinjia Wang, Yajuan Xiao, Xing Geng, Jing Song, Yueru Ye, Kairan Zuo, Chris Bass, Shutang Zhou Plants and herbivoro...

Immune cells offer insights on billion-dollar virus

Single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals cell-specific immune responses to white spot syndrome virus in whiteleg shrimp, identifying genes that may support future disease-resistance s...

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Nemasphere: Putting Nematode Resistance to Work in the Field

Standing beside a soybean plot at the 2026 Farm Progress Show, Brownfield got a firsthand look at technology designed to tackle one of the challenges farmers often can’t see until...

CCMB team finds a cellular ‘alarm switch’ against viruses

Scientists have found that the protein called DZIP3 acts as this switch playing a key role in the immune system