Specifically, plants do not have adaptive immunity, which establishes immune memory and elicits a stronger immune response in mammals. Plant cells have markers on their surface to detect infections ...

But in recent years, the barrier between the branches has started to blur. As a postdoctoral fellow, Martinez-Gonzalez investigated the memory potential of another innate immune cell, type 2 innate ...

Plants have two basic immune pathways. First, a pattern recognition receptor (PRR) on the plant cell’s surface recognizes pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) released by invaders—say, the ...

New research from Salk Institute scientists reveals how plant cells switch roles to protect themselves against pathogens. When a threat is encountered, the cells enter a specialized immune state ...

In order to develop new strategies against such pathogens, understanding the plant’s immune response is of central importance. A team headed by biologist Prof Jörg Kudla of the University of Münster ...

Biologists have identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism.

Pathogen-fighting immune cells called tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells (TRM cells) go through a surprising transformation -- and relocation -- as they fight infections in the small intestine.