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The emerging frontier of plant immunity's core hubs
Author(s) -
Iakovidis Michail,
Chung EuiHwan,
Saile Svenja C.,
Sauberzweig Elke,
El Kasmi Farid
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
the febs journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.981
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1742-4658
pISSN - 1742-464X
DOI - 10.1111/febs.16549
Subject(s) - function (biology) , frontier , agriculture , biology , population , quality (philosophy) , face (sociological concept) , risk analysis (engineering) , microbiology and biotechnology , environmental planning , business , ecology , geography , evolutionary biology , sociology , medicine , environmental health , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , social science
The ever‐growing world population, increasingly frequent extreme weather events and conditions, emergence of novel devastating crop pathogens and the social strive for quality food products represent a huge challenge for current and future agricultural production systems. To address these challenges and find realistic solutions, it is becoming more important by the day to understand the complex interactions between plants and the environment, mainly the associated organisms, but in particular pathogens. In the past several years, research in the fields of plant pathology and plant–microbe interactions has enabled tremendous progress in understanding how certain receptor‐based plant innate immune systems function to successfully prevent infections and diseases. In this review, we highlight and discuss some of these new ground‐breaking discoveries and point out strategies of how pathogens counteract the function of important core convergence hubs of the plant immune system. For practical reasons, we specifically place emphasis on potential applications that can be detracted by such discoveries and what challenges the future of agriculture has to face, but also how these challenges could be tackled.