Engineering plant resistance by constructing chimeric receptors that recognize damage-associated molecular patterns

Giulia De Lorenzo1, Alexandre Brutus, Daniel Valentin Savatin

  • 1Istituto Pasteur-Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie C. Darwin, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy. giulia.delorenzo@uniroma1.it

FEBS Letters
|May 4, 2011
PubMed
Summary

Plants can sense danger and activate immune responses using molecular patterns. This study focuses on oligogalacturonides (OGs) as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) and their receptor, Wall-Associated Kinase 1 (WAK1), for engineering crop resistance.