Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection

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• Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich
• Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00
• Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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Diverse microbes cause plant disease, and plants have evolved a robust innate immune system that recognizes pathogen molecules and then activates defense. Immunity involves both cell surface receptors (usually transmembrane protein kinases) also intracellular NLR immune receptors, encoded byResistance® genes. Plant NLRs are modular proteins and usually carry an N-terminal signaling domain, followed by a nucleotide-binding domain and C-terminal LRRs. NLRs either directly recognize pathogen effector molecules, or recognize the effects of these effectors on host proteins. Plants show extensive within- and between-species diversity in their NLR -encoding repertoires, which we investigate using sequence capture methods, and polymorphism in population NLR repertoires is important for their efficacy.

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