Perception of elicitins by receptor complex in solanaceae

Extensive infections of crop plants by plant pathogens have repeatedly resulted in catastrophic harvest failures causing major economic and social problems worldwide. Successful plant defence against pathogens is based on early microbe recognition and fast activation of downstream immune signalling (e.g. phosphorylations, production of reactive oxygen species, transcriptomic reprogramming). Plant surface pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) act as initial detectors that can recognise microbial-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) to induce the basal resistance response called MAMP-triggered immunity (MTI). Despite the increasing number of PRRs discovered in the past 20 years, for most of t…