title: The role of chitin detection in plant--pathogen interactions.
abstract: Despite the deployment of antifungal defence strategies, fungal diseases occur in all types of multicellular organisms. In plants, the role of fungal chitin as pathogen-associated molecular pattern that activates host defence is well established. Interestingly, plants employ homologs of the chitin immune receptors to initiate microbial symbiosis. Accumulating evidence shows that fungal pathogens developed secreted effectors to disarm chitin-triggered host immunity.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Anja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kombrink
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Vallet
authors.forename: Bart P H J
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Thomma
mesh_terms: D002686:Chitin / Q000276:immunology*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D005658:Fungi / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions / Q000276:immunology; D009181:Mycoses / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology; D057865:Plant Immunity; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D010944:Plants / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology; D051192:Receptors, Pattern Recognition / Q000276:immunology; D012230:Rhizobiaceae / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000276:immunology*; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D051192:Receptors, Pattern Recognition; D002686:Chitin