Larisa A. Shcherbakova

TL;DR: It is shown that CS-20 produces proteins, which elicit defense responses in tomato plants, and the main polypeptide (designated CS20EP), which was specifically present in the defense-inducing fraction and was not detected in inactive protein fractions, was identified.

TL;DR: Up-regulated IR-specific DEFL genes represent novel candidates for genetic transformation of plants and development of pathogen-resistant crops and insight into the mode of action of the elicitors from F. sambucinum is gained.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used thymol to overcome the resistance of a P. nodorum strain able to grow on difenoconazole-containing media, and showed that combined treatments of naturally infected barley seeds with Dividend® 030 FS synergistically exacerbated the protective effect against common root rot agent, B. sorokiniana, and other fungi (Fusarium spp. and Alternaria spp.).

TL;DR: The structure–function relationship in WAMPs—hevein-like AMPs found in wheat and later in other Poaceae species is reported and the ability to synergistically interact with a fungicide and exacerbate the sensitivity of plant pathogenic fungi to a commercial antifungal agent is reported.

TL;DR: expression analysis showed that 121 TkLTPs including sets of paralogs with identical mature peptides displayed specific expression patters in response to different treatments pointing to their diverse roles in resistance development, suggesting that upregulated nsLTP genes are involved in protection due to their antimicrobial activity or signaling functions.