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A new blueprint for plant pathogen resistance

A signaling cascade downstream of a leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase identified in Arabidopsis offers new options for engineering crop disease resistance.

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Figure 1: Model of signal transduction in plants and mammals leading to the expression of defense genes.

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Hirt, H. A new blueprint for plant pathogen resistance. Nat Biotechnol 20, 450–451 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0502-450

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