Jan Dittgen

TL;DR: It is reported that Arabidopsis PEN2 restricts pathogen entry of two ascomycete powdery mildew fungi that in nature colonize grass and pea species.

TL;DR: The authors showed that pen3 mutants were compromised in resistance to the necrotroph Plectosphaerella cucumerina and to two additional inappropriate biotrophs, pea powdery mildew (Erysiphe pisi) and potato late blight (Phytophthora infestans).

TL;DR: The isolation of a pen3 allele, designated pen3-5, that encodes a dysfunctional protein that accumulates in planta like wild-type PEN3 is described, and it is proposed that a precursor of 4OGlcI3F is the PEN2 myrosinase-dependent substrate in extracellular pathogen defense.

TL;DR: In this article , 2,3-dihydro-1-benzofuran-4-carboxylic acid derivatives have been identified as potent lead structures against drought and cold stress in crops starting from the synthetic exploration of stabilized analogs of the natural product lunularic acid.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors used matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI MSI) to visualize and analyze indirect interactions of two substances in planta.