Similar to humans, plants have an immune system to help defend against parasites and other deleterious infections. The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an ...

Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are activated. But there's a downside to this protective mechanism: the plant's ...

SAN DIEGO — Iron is an important mineral for human and plant health. New data is sprouting up on how iron influences a plant's immunity. Scientists at the Salk Institute in La Jolla have started to ...

A study led by a team of researchers at the University of Kentucky's Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has revealed a surprising biochemical connection between plant immune ...

A new study shows how plants balance growth and defense, offering insights for stronger, more resilient crops. Microscopic imaging of stomata cells in plants. Courtesy of the Torii Lab/The University ...

Plant diseases constitute a constant threat to global food security. A protein-engineering strategy, in which a constitutively active form of an immune receptor is kept inactive by a peptide until it ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed a surprising biochemical connection between plant immune responses and human neurological health. Researchers have discovered that the metabolic pathways regulating ...

Fire blight remains one of the most destructive bacterial diseases threatening global apple production, with limited long-term control options.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Plant diseases destroy up to 40% of global food crops, threatening food security and agricultural sustainability. While plants naturally resist many diseases, their defenses often ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...

Summary The first layer of plant immunity is activated by cell surface receptor-like kinases (RLKs) and proteins (RLPs) that detect infectious pathogens. Constitutive interaction with the SUPPRESSOR ...

Pradeep (left) and Aarda Kachroo (right) are leading experts in plant pathology. Both are professors in the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. Photo by Martin-Gatton CAFE.