ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
Unlocking extracellular immunity for new crop protection strategies.
New crop protection strategies are essential to feed a growing world population. Plant pathogens decrease food production by 18-30% and these losses are expected to increase with climate change and reduced agrochemical use. Most plant-pathogenic bacteria, fungi and oomycetes colonize the extracellular compartment (apoplast) of plants and are exposed to a vast array of potentially harmful metabolites and hydrolytic enzymes secreted by the plant, providing basal, multigenic immunity that is hardly understood and exploited for crop protection. Challenges to unlock the potential of this extra layer of immunity reside in: i) the redundancies in the extracellular immune network; ii) adapted…
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