For the textbooks 🤩.
Many congratulations to the authors!
A helper NLR channels organellar calcium to trigger plant immunity
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Delighted to see this work out in #ScienceAdvancesResearch @science.org where we uncover a surprising evolutionary origin of fungal effector proteins as ancient antimicrobials.
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Upon activation, plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors are known to assemble into oligomeric resistosomes that insert into the plasma membrane, forming calcium (Ca2+)–per...