Publications by authors named "Yuanliu Xu"
Tomato powdery mildew, caused by Oidium neolycopersici, is a fungal disease that results in severe yield loss in infected plants. Herein, we describe the function of a class of proteins, soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs), which play a role in vesicle transport during defense signaling. To date, there have been no reports describing the function of tomato SNAREs during resistance signaling to powdery mildew.
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- The Arp2/3 complex is important for how plant cells react to stress and help protect themselves from disease.
- Scientists studied a gene called ShARPC3 from a tomato plant, which makes a protein important for fighting off a fungal disease.
- When they messed with ShARPC3, the tomato plants got sick more easily, but when they increased its levels, the plants became better at fighting the disease.
The plant cytoskeleton, including microtubules and microfilaments, is one of the important factors in determining the polarity of cell division and growth, as well as the interaction of plants with invading pathogens. In defense responses of wheat against the stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp.
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