Publications by authors named "Anne Bennion"
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- Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) play critical roles in transmitting environmental signals that influence plant development and stress responses, with rice possessing over a thousand RLKs but only a few characterized for specific functions.
- A study identified BDR1 (Blast Disease Resistance 1) as a negative regulator of rice's defense against the blast fungus; silencing or knocking out BDR1 increased resistance in rice varieties.
- Further analysis revealed that BDR1 interacts with and phosphorylates mitogen-activated kinase 3 (MPK3), and together they negatively regulate jasmonate signaling and terpene biosynthesis pathways, diminishing rice resistance to blast disease.
Flowers are required for the Darwinian fitness of flowering plants, but flowers' advertisements for pollination services can attract florivores. Previous glasshouse work with Nicotiana attenuata revealed the role of jasmonate (JA) signaling in flower development, advertisement and defense. However, whether JA signaling mediates flowers' filtering of floral visitors in nature remained unknown.
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