Battling immune kinases in plants.
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.
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Brad
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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.
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Sheng Yang
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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.