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Author Spotlight: Identifying Compensatory Pathways in Malaria Parasites Containing Hypomorphic Allele of Essential Protein Kinases
Published on: November 22, 2024
Glucosylation-mediated kin avoidance inspires parasite-resistant crops
Farah Kanwal1, Jun Yang1, Alisdair R Fernie2
1State Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Breeding, School of Breeding and Multiplication (Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication), Hainan University, Sanya, Hainan 572025, China.
Abstract:
Parasitic plants devastate crops, but they avoid attacking their own kind due to a self-recognition system. Xiang et al. discovered that a single enzyme glucosylates haustorium-inducing signals, silencing them in parasites and revealing parasite-host substrate differences. This metabolic self-recognition offers a foundation for engineering parasite-resistant crops through targeted glucosylation.
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