Japan · Tohoku Univ .: Develop breakthrough plant immunity enhancer – Prevent infection by plant pathogens

By 5 Science, University

Japan · Tohoku Univ .: Develop breakthrough plant immunity enhancer – Prevent infection by plant pathogens

~ Historical challenge of plant immunity “Solving trade-offs between growth and defense”

【Point of presentation】

  1. About 10-15% of the world’s production foods are damaged by pathogen infection
  2. Plant immune hormones secreted against pathogenic bacterial infections activate immune responses at the expense of plant growth (“growth and defense tradeoffs”)
  3. The newly developed plant hormone receptor “Biased agonist (Note 1)” does not affect plant growth and activates only the pathogenic bacterial infection resistance

This result was announced at 6 pm on September 7 (Japan time) in the UK science magazine “Nature Communications”.

Press Release | Tohoku University – TOKO UNIVERSITY –

https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2018/09/press-20180918-ueda.html

More from tokioX :

  1. Burial chambers of the Greek era: in the underground ruins of Naples!
  2. Tohoku University: Elemental level analysis with soft X-ray beam: Utilization of synchrotron radiation data
  3. Tohoku Univ: This is the “heart” of the next-generation synchrotron radiation facility
  4. Photoelectron Soul: Miniaturization of the electron gun of a large accelerator:
  5. Nanotubes built from protein crystals: Breakthrough in biomolecular engineering
  6. RIKEN / Tokyo Univ: ‘Superconducting Nonvolatile Memory’ realized – ‘ON / OFF’ by temporary current
  7. Tohoku Univ .: Structure of protein responsible for structural transformation of chromosome is elucidated