Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced naturally during cellular metabolism often cause oxidative damage to cells. However, ...

Plants rely on a multi-layered innate immune system that integrates extracellular and intracellular surveillance. At the cell surface, pattern recognition receptors detect conserved microbial or ...

Plant immunity research has undergone a transformative shift with the advent of spatial and single-cell technologies, ...

Using newly generated 'optogenetic' tobacco plants, research teams have investigated how plants process external signals. When it comes to survival, plants have a huge disadvantage compared to many ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical cues from bacterial pathogens and communicate this information to neighbors ...

Stem cells are dependent on signals from other cells The fact that stem cells can continuously divide and form progenitor cells for specialized tissues is not a matter of course: signals from other ...