Guest Opinion. The story of tobacco in colonial Virginia represents one of the earliest and most significant cases of ...

Tobacco species like Nicotiana benthamiana and Nicotiana tabacum are known for having compromised basal immunity and a less robust ribonucleic acid (RNA) silencing pathway involving the ...

The ability of endophytic fungi to produce amylases, cellulases, lipases, pectinases, phytase, and proteases were qualitatively assessed on specific indicative solid media. The isolates were cultured ...

Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain proteins possess NADase activity and trigger plant immunity via their enzymatic products. Two recent studies have elucidated the mechanism by which TIR ...

Irritant contact dermatitis (ICD) from plants is a very common phenomenon as potentially irritant plants and plant products are commonly found in the everyday environment, including the home ...

The many thousands of plant species and their numerous chemical products make the study of CICD from plants appear daunting. The vast majority of CICD reactions, however, are caused by one of ...

When NFR5 and NFR1 are ectopically over-expressed in leaves of the non-legume Nicotiana benthamiana, they induce cell death (Madsen et al., 2011, Plant Journal). Bao et al., found that this cell death ...

1 Guangxi Zhuang and Yao Ethnic Medicine Key Laboratory, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China 2 Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Instituto de ...

Plant peptides, synthesized from larger precursor proteins, often undergo proteolytic cleavage and post-translational modifications to form active peptide hormones. This process involves several ...

This manuscript describes important findings on a rhizobial effector, its cleavage, and legume receptors involved in symbiosis. The evidence supporting the main claims is solid, though some ...