Introduction to Special Issue of Molecular Plant Pathology ‐ “Extracellular and intracellular perception of plant viruses”
Introduction to Special Issue of Molecular Plant Pathology ‐ “Extracellular and intracellular perception of plant viruses”
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分子植物病理学特刊简介—植物病毒的细胞外和细胞内感知
DOI:
10.1111/mpp.12842
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Verchot, Jeanmarie
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作者:
Aranda, Miguel A.;Mäkinen, Kristiina;Verchot, Jeanmarie
We are very pleased to present in this Special Issue of Molecular Plant Pathology a series of short reviews on the topic “Extracellular and intracellular perception of plant viruses”. The issue summarizes important breakthroughs in plant defence against viruses. Significant advances made in recent years provide new insights into the mechanisms of antiviral immunity after virus recognition by host cells. Plant viruses constitute an important cause of major crop losses worldwide and threaten food security. The advances in the field of plant–virus interactions will expand the potential strategies for breeding and engineering resistance in crops. The articles in this issue discuss the co-evolving virulence and plant resistance strategies exemplifying the evolutionary arms race between viruses and their hosts. For the past twenty years, the endogenous RNA silencing pathway acting to degrade viral RNAs, and intracellular perception of viral proteins by nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors leading to effector-triggered immunity (ETI), have been seen as the most critical contributions to antiviral defence in plants. As discussed in the review entitled “Perspectives on intracellular perception of plant viruses” by Meier et al. in this issue, a considerable body of knowledge on how viruses are perceived by NLRs, and how NLRs are activated and use downstream signalling pathways to initiate defence responses, has developed during these years. In spite of that, our understanding of the underlying phenomena is still far from complete. After their concise but comprehensive review, the authors draw future lines for research, and point out structural analyses of NLRs complexed with their partners as one source of critical information to understand intracellular perception of plant virus and defences activation.