Enzymatic Functions for Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor Domain Proteins in the Plant Immune System.

ABSTRACT: Rationally engineered improvements to crop plants will be needed to keep pace with increasing demands placed on agricultural systems by population growth and climate change. Engineering of plant immune systems provides an opportunity to increase yields by limiting losses to pathogens. Intracellular immune receptors are commonly used as agricultural disease resistance traits. Despite their importance, how intracellular immune receptors confer disease resistance is still unknown. One major class of immune receptors in dicots contains a Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor (TIR) domain. The mechanisms of TIR-containing proteins during plant immunity have remained elusive. The TIR domain is an ancient module found in archaeal, bacterial and eukaryotic proteins. In animals, TIR domains serve a structura

SUBMITTER: Bayless AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282519 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature