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The bifunctional plant receptor, OsCERK1, regulates both chitin-triggered immunity and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Nov 2014
Miyata Kana, Kozaki Toshinori, Kouzai Yusuke, Ozawa Kenjirou, Ishii Kazuo, Asamizu Erika, Okabe Yoshihiro, Umehara Yosuke, Miyamoto Ayano, Kobae Yoshihiro, Akiyama Kohki, Kaku Hanae, Nishizawa Yoko, Shibuya Naoto, Nakagawa Tomomi
Abstract excerpt
Plants are constantly exposed to threats from pathogenic microbes and thus developed an innate immune system to protect themselves. On the other hand, many plants also have the ability to establish endosymbiosis with beneficial microbes such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi or rhizobial bacteria, which improves the growth of host plants. How plants evolved these systems managing such opposite plant-microbe...
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