The genetic basis of plants' battle against witchweeds: linking immune responses to distinct resistance mechanisms

Min-Yao Jhu; Dorota Kawa; Siobhán M Brady

doi:10.1093/jxb/erad305

The genetic basis of plants' battle against witchweeds: linking immune responses to distinct resistance mechanisms

J Exp Bot. 2023 Sep 13;74(17):4903-4909. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erad305.

Authors

Min-Yao Jhu¹, Dorota Kawa^{2

3

4}, Siobhán M Brady²

Affiliations

¹ Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
² Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
³ Plant Stress Resilience, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
⁴ Plant Environment Signaling, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Abstract

This article comments on:

Mutinda S, Mobegi FM, Hale B, Dayou O, Ateka E, Wijeratne A, Wicke S, Bellis ES, Runo S. 2023. Resolving intergenotypic Striga resistance in sorghum. Journal of Experimental Botany 74, 5294–5306.

Keywords: Striga; Cell type-specific defence; cell wall-based resistance; hypersensitive response; inducible defence; lignin; parasitic plants; post-attachment resistance.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Immunity
Striga*