title: Co-opting the cell-cycle machinery for plant immunity.
abstract: Plant effector-triggered immunity is a robust cellular defense response activated by a family of intracellular receptors. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Wang et al. (2014) show that receptor-activated defense pathways utilize several core cell-cycle regulatory components to induce resistance and programmed cell death against pathogens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany; Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), 50829 Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: parker@mpipz.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Jane E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000276:immunology*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D050684:E2F Transcription Factors / Q000276:immunology*; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D050684:E2F Transcription Factors