Abstract
The ever-growing world population, increasingly frequent extreme weather events and conditions, emergence of novel devastating crop pathogens and the social strive for quality food products represent a huge challenge for current and future agricultural production systems. To address these challenges and find realistic solutions, it is becoming more important by the day to understand the complex interactions between plants and the environment, mainly the associated organisms, but in particular pathogens. In the past several years, research in the fields of plant pathology and plant–microbe interactions has enabled tremendous progress in understanding how certain receptor-based plant innate immune systems function to successfully prevent infections and diseases. In this review, we highlight and discuss some of these new ground-breaking discoveries and point out strategies of how pathogens counteract the function of important core convergence hubs of the plant immune system. For practical reasons, we specifically place emphasis on potential applications that can be detracted by such discoveries and what challenges the future of agriculture has to face, but also how these challenges could be tackled.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 3311-3335 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | FEBS Journal |
| Volume | 290 |
| Issue number | 13 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 Jul |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to thank the various funding agencies for their support: FEK and SCS were financially supported by the University of Tübingen, the German Research Foundation (DFG CRC1101/D09 and EL 734/3‐1 to FEK) and the Reinhard Frank Stiftung (Project ‘helperless plant’ to FEK). MI was financially supported by the n‐Tomatomics project (joint EU‐Greek Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, T2EDK‐01332: Development of new tomato cultivars by using omics technologies; MIS 5072532). E‐HC was funded by the Korea University Grants (K2021521 and K2106871), the Korea University Insung Research Grant, the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF: 2021R1F1A1047450), and the Rural Development Agent (RDA: PJ015871). We would also like to thank the members of the El Kasmi, the Dangl and the Nishimura labs for helpful discussion throughout the last years. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the various funding agencies for their support: FEK and SCS were financially supported by the University of Tübingen, the German Research Foundation (DFG CRC1101/D09 and EL 734/3-1 to FEK) and the Reinhard Frank Stiftung (Project ‘helperless plant’ to FEK). MI was financially supported by the n-Tomatomics project (joint EU-Greek Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, T2EDK-01332: Development of new tomato cultivars by using omics technologies; MIS 5072532). E-HC was funded by the Korea University Grants (K2021521 and K2106871), the Korea University Insung Research Grant, the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF: 2021R1F1A1047450), and the Rural Development Agent (RDA: PJ015871). We would also like to thank the members of the El Kasmi, the Dangl and the Nishimura labs for helpful discussion throughout the last years. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. The FEBS Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
Keywords
- ETI
- NLRs
- PRRs
- PTI
- agricultural applications
- pathogen effectors
- plant immunity
- sensor and helper NLRs
- suppression of immunity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology
