Jeffery L. Dangl

TL;DR: A detailed understanding of plant immune function will underpin crop improvement for food, fibre and biofuels production and provide extraordinary insights into molecular recognition, cell biology and evolution across biological kingdoms.

TL;DR: The current knowledge of recognition-dependent disease resistance in plants is reviewed, and a few crucial concepts are included to compare and contrast plant innate immunity with that more commonly associated with animals.

TL;DR: The pyrosequencing of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene of more than 600 Arabidopsis thaliana plants is reported to test the hypotheses that the root rhizosphere and endophytic compartment microbiota of plants grown under controlled conditions in natural soils are sufficiently dependent on the host to remain consistent across different soil types and developmental stages.

TL;DR: Identification of two partially redundant Arabidopsis guard cell‐expressed NADPH oxidase catalytic subunit genes, AtrbohD and atrbohF, are reported, providing direct molecular genetic and cell biological evidence that ROS are rate‐limiting second messengers in ABA signaling, and that the AtrbOHD and AtrabohF NADPH oxidationases function in guard cell ABA signal transduction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed lines carrying dSpm insertions in the highly expressed AtrbohD and AtrabohF genes, which are required for full ROI production observed during incompatible interactions with the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv.