Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Defenses Against Pathogens and Herbivores

Defenses Against Pathogens and Herbivores

Plants present a rich source of nutrients for many organisms, making it a target for herbivores and infectious agents. Plants, though lacking a proper immune system, have developed an array of constitutive and inducible defenses to fend off these attacks.

Cell Signaling in Plants

Cell Signaling in Plants

Plant cells communicate to coordinate their cycle of growth, flowering and fruiting, and activities in roots, shoots, and leaves in response to the changing environmental conditions. Plant signaling is distinct from animal signaling. Plants primarily utilize enzyme-linked receptors, whereas the largest class of cell-surface receptors in animals are G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). Unlike animals, receptor tyrosine kinases are rare in plants. Instead, plants have a diverse class of...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

[Studies on light catalysis oxidation degradation of Malachite Green by Photo-Fenton reagent].

Guang pu xue yu guang pu fen xi = Guang pu·2007

Same author

Alternative conformations of the archaeal Nop56/58-fibrillarin complex imply flexibility in box C/D RNPs.

Journal of molecular biology·2007

Same author

Validation of nonnested and real-time PCR for diagnosis of sheep-associated malignant catarrhal fever in clinical samples.

Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc·2007

Same author

Room temperature fabrication of porous ZnO photoelectrodes for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)·2007

Same author

Influence of medication choice and comorbid diabetes: the cost of bipolar disorder in a privately insured US population.

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology·2007

Same author

Mechanistic studies of the long chain acyl-CoA synthetase Faa1p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Biochimica et biophysica acta·2007

Same journal

LSL-YOLO11n: a YOLO11n-based model for maize leaf disease detection in complex field environments.

Frontiers in plant science·2026

Same journal

Patterns of plastid gene evolution: identifying candidate genes for plastid-nuclear incompatibility across the Campanulaceae.

Frontiers in plant science·2026

Same journal

Assembly and comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of <i>Holmskioldia sanguinea</i>.

Frontiers in plant science·2026

Same journal

Genotypic resilience and fruit quality responses of tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) in progressive salinity stress across diverse cultivation conditions.

Frontiers in plant science·2026

Same journal

Growth history revealed by tree rings provides clues for the conservation of an endangered subtropical tree species.

Frontiers in plant science·2026

Same journal

Climate change reshapes habitat suitability of ancient tea trees in Yunnan: insights from an optimized MaxEnt model.

Frontiers in plant science·2026

See all related articles

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Feb 28, 2026

Bacterial Leaf Infiltration Assay for Fine Characterization of Plant Defense Responses using the Arabidopsis thaliana-Pseudomonas syringae Pathosystem

Bacterial Leaf Infiltration Assay for Fine Characterization of Plant Defense Responses using the Arabidopsis thaliana-Pseudomonas syringae Pathosystem

Published on: October 1, 2015

Network Analysis Reveals a Common Host-Pathogen Interaction Pattern in Arabidopsis Immune Responses.

Hong Li¹, Yuan Zhou¹, Ziding Zhang¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural UniversityBeijing, China.

Frontiers in Plant Science

|June 15, 2017

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Plant pathogens use virulence effectors to disrupt host networks by targeting key proteins. Plants counter by activating defense genes away from these targets over time.

Keywords:

effector network analysis plant immune response plant–pathogen interaction systems biology time series gene expression data

More Related Videos

A Versatile Method for Mounting Arabidopsis Leaves for Intravital Time-lapse Imaging

A Versatile Method for Mounting Arabidopsis Leaves for Intravital Time-lapse Imaging

Published on: February 11, 2019

Pattern-Triggered Oxidative Burst and Seedling Growth Inhibition Assays in Arabidopsis thaliana

Pattern-Triggered Oxidative Burst and Seedling Growth Inhibition Assays in Arabidopsis thaliana

Published on: May 21, 2019

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Feb 28, 2026

Bacterial Leaf Infiltration Assay for Fine Characterization of Plant Defense Responses using the Arabidopsis thaliana-Pseudomonas syringae Pathosystem

Bacterial Leaf Infiltration Assay for Fine Characterization of Plant Defense Responses using the Arabidopsis thaliana-Pseudomonas syringae Pathosystem

Published on: October 1, 2015

A Versatile Method for Mounting Arabidopsis Leaves for Intravital Time-lapse Imaging

A Versatile Method for Mounting Arabidopsis Leaves for Intravital Time-lapse Imaging

Published on: February 11, 2019

Pattern-Triggered Oxidative Burst and Seedling Growth Inhibition Assays in Arabidopsis thaliana

Pattern-Triggered Oxidative Burst and Seedling Growth Inhibition Assays in Arabidopsis thaliana

Published on: May 21, 2019

Area of Science:

Plant pathology
Systems biology
Molecular plant-microbe interactions

Background:

Plant pathogens secrete virulence effectors into host cells.
The dynamic interactions between effectors and host cellular networks are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the network topology of effector targets and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) during plant-pathogen interactions.
To understand the dynamic interplay between pathogen effectors and host cellular networks.

Main Methods:

Integrative network analysis combining Arabidopsis thaliana protein-protein interaction network, known effector targets (Pseudomonas syringae, Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis), and gene expression profiles.
Analysis of network topology, including betweenness centrality and clustering of effector targets.
Examination of the temporal distance between effector targets and DEGs.

Main Results:

Effectors target key network positions with high betweenness centrality.
Effector targets tend to cluster together in the network.
The distance between effector targets and DEGs increases over time during infection, with susceptible mutants showing more DEGs near targets than resistant mutants.

Conclusions:

Pathogens employ a "local impact mode" to disrupt key host network positions.
Plants mount an "in-depth defense" by activating genes distal to effector targets sequentially.
A common cellular network-level interaction pattern exists between plants and pathogens.