Yuqing He

TL;DR: Leukocyte cell–derived chemotaxin 2 enhances phagocytosis and bacterial killing of macrophages to improve the outcome of bacterial-induced sepsis.

TL;DR: This study reveals that an ARF transcription factor is targeted by several independently evolved viral proteins of very different plant RNA viruses, and suggests that OsARF17 plays a crucial role in plant defense against different types of plant viruses.

TL;DR: ABA modulates the rice-RBSDV interaction by suppressing the jasmonate pathway and regulating reactive oxygen species levels and is the first example of ABA increasing susceptibility to a plant virus.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that SPX4, a conserved regulator of the Pi response, transduces the Pi starvation signal to anthocyanin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis, revealing a direct link between Pi deficiency and flavonoid metabolism.

TL;DR: It is shown that the auxin signalling pathway was markedly down‐regulated following infection of rice by Rice black streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV), a dsRNA virus, and OsRboh‐mediated reactive oxygen species levels played important roles in this defence.