PALs: Emerging Key Players in Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance

Ruyi Wang; Guo-Liang Wang; Yuese Ning

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.012

PALs: Emerging Key Players in Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance

Trends Plant Sci. 2019 Sep;24(9):785-787. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.012. Epub 2019 Jul 9.

Authors

Ruyi Wang¹, Guo-Liang Wang², Yuese Ning³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
² State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China; Department of Plant Pathology, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 31300196
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.012

Abstract

Phenylalanine ammonia lyases (PALs) are involved in resistance to plant pathogens, but the mechanism by which they contribute to plant immunity is unclear. Two recent studies provide direct evidence for PALs' contributions to rice broad-spectrum resistance (BSR) mediated by nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat-containing (NLR) proteins and RNA-binding proteins (Zhai et al., Mol. Cell, 2019; Zhou et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2018).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Disease Resistance*
Humans
Oryza*
Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase
Plant Proteins
RNA-Binding Proteins

Substances

Plant Proteins
RNA-Binding Proteins
Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase