Innate immunity - Plants just say NO to pathogens

被引:105
作者
Dangl, J
机构
[1] Univ N Carolina, Dept Biol, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
[2] Univ N Carolina, Curriculum Genet & Mol Biol, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
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10.1038/28958
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Plants under attack from pathogens can activate a series of cellular defence responses, including the production of reactive oxygen species (ROIs). One puzzle has been that the levels of these ROIs don't seem to be high enough to kill the pathogens, and two groups have now found out why. It turns out that the ROIs collaborate with nitric oxide, to form a binary switch that fine tunes the defence-response pathway.
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