Understanding how the Arabidopsis plant peptide 'Kiss Of Death' (KOD) induces cell death in plant cells

养活世界上不断增长的人口是我们这个时代最大的挑战之一，需要大幅度提高全球粮食产量。为了避免农场遭受严重损失，大多数农民都欢迎负责任的农用化学品的使用。拜耳作物科学公司的科学家们正在为创新作物保护产品开发有效的、环境相容的作用机制。通过这种方式，他们正在帮助英国和全球各地的农民为不断增长的世界人口保障粮食供应。这项工作需要分子的不断发展，以保持领先的新挑战和应对新的监管框架。因此，活性分子的发现是养活世界的一个非常重要的部分。曼彻斯特大学最近发现了一种被称为“死亡之吻”的植物小肽，它可以调节植物的程序性细胞死亡，这为作物保护科学家开发新分子的新方法提供了一个独特的机会。这种与工业界的合作将为学术研究方面带来大规模的能力，这将有利于项目的发展，并增加其与作物保护的相关性。

Feeding the world's growing population is one of the greatest challenges of our time, requiring a substantial increase in global crop yield. To avoid crippling losses on their farm, most farmers welcome the idea of responsible agrochemical use. Bayer CropScience scientists are working on effective, environmentally compatible mechanisms of action for innovative crop protection products. In this way they are helping farmers in the UK and around the globe to safeguard the food supply for a growing world population. This work requires a continuous development of molecules to keep ahead of new challenges and respond to new regulatory frameworks. Active molecule discovery is therefore a very important part of feeding the world. The recent discovery at the University of Manchester, of a small plant peptide termed Kiss-Of-Death that regulates plant programmed cell death, represents a unique opportunity for crop protection scientists to develop new approaches for novel molecules. This collaboration with industry will bring a large-scale capability to the academic research side that will benefit the development of the project and increase its relevance to crop protection.