Plants know how to defend themselves against pathogenic microorganisms. In turn, pathogens have sensors to detect such defense mechanisms. What happens when plant and pathogen are locked in that duel?

Almost 400,000 plant species exist, and every one of them is threatened by organisms ranging in size from microscopic fungi and bacteria all the way up to elephants searching for something to eat.

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell ...

In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New research reveals just how clever these bacterial invaders can be. Plants, like ...

A research team has uncovered a significant regulatory mechanism that enhances the jujube tree's defense against phytoplasma ...

Plants form a critical model for understanding regulated cell death (RCD) as part of their sophisticated immune responses. In the ongoing evolutionary arms ...

P. Hunziker et al., Herbivore feeding preference corroborates optimal defense theory for specialized metabolites within plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.118 ...

Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Adam Frew receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the British Ecological Society.

Scott N. Johnson, James M. W. Ryalls, Craig V. M. Barton, Mark G. Tjoelker, Ian J. Wright and Ben D. Moore 1. Plants, notably the Poaceae, often accumulate large amounts of silicon (Si) from the soil.