title: Innate immunity in plants: a continuum of layered defenses.
abstract: Plant responses to pathogenic invaders result from recognition of nonself elicitors. Host surveillance proteins activate distinct signaling pathways that induce partially overlapping defensive responses. Pathogen virulence is promoted by inhibition of these pathways. This evolutionary struggle has produced plant immune systems that rely on a continuum of layered defenses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: da Cunha
authors.forename: Aidan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: McFall
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mackey
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014774:Virulence
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins