title: Battling immune kinases in plants.
abstract: As part of innate immune signaling, plants employ a suite of receptors, kinases, and resistance proteins to recognize pathogen-derived effector proteins. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Zhang et al. provide evidence refining the link between multiple layers of defense signaling in response to bacterial pathogen infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; Genetics Graduate Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Electronic address: bday@msu.edu.
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Day
authors.affiliation: Genetics Graduate Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
authors.forename: Sheng Yang
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: He