Abstract
This chapter reviews potential disease control strategies by employing the current understanding of Pathogen-Associated Molecular Patterns (PAMPs) and their receptors, as well as effectors and their targets. It discusses how effectoromics, i.e. surveying which, and to what level, effectors are expressed at a pathogen population level, can help to select the most useful and durable R genes. Plant immunity can be boosted by overexpressing a Pattern-Recognition Receptor (PRR) in a closely- or more-distantly related plant to strengthen PAMP-Triggered Immunity (PTI). An interesting aspect of NB-LRR transcript regulation that involves small RNAs is currently emerging and could potentially be explored in the search for more durable and/or broad-spectrum pathogen resistance. The chapter suggests ways that can be used to undermine effector function and be exploited to engineer resistant plants in the future. It further illustrates how a mechanistic understanding of a pathogen's stealth strategies may allow new approaches to engineer resistance.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Plant Pathogen Resistance Biotechnology |
| Editors | David B. Collinge |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Pages | 23-50 |
| Chapter | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118867761 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118867716 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Effector recognition
- Effectoromics
- Engineering resistance
- NB-LRR-type resistance proteins
- PAMP-triggered immunity
- Pathogen effector function
- Pattern recognition receptor
- Plant defence