Towards engineering of hormonal crosstalk in plant immunity
Alexandra M Shigenaga1, Matthias L Berens2, Kenichi Tsuda2
1Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Abstract:
Plant hormones regulate physiological responses in plants, including responses to pathogens and beneficial microbes. The last decades have provided a vast amount of evidence about the contribution of different plant hormones to plant immunity, and also of how they cooperate to orchestrate immunity activation, in a process known as hormone crosstalk. In this review we highlight the complexity of hormonal crosstalk in immunity and approaches currently being used to further understand this process, as well as perspectives to engineer hormone crosstalk for enhanced pathogen resistance and overall plant fitness.
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