Nature Communications (Oct 2020)
The tomato receptor CuRe1 senses a cell wall protein to identify Cuscuta as a pathogen
- Volker Hegenauer,
- Peter Slaby,
- Max Körner,
- Julien-Alexander Bruckmüller,
- Ronja Burggraf,
- Isabell Albert,
- Bettina Kaiser,
- Birgit Löffelhardt,
- Irina Droste-Borel,
- Jan Sklenar,
- Frank L. H. Menke,
- Boris Maček,
- Aashish Ranjan,
- Neelima Sinha,
- Thorsten Nürnberger,
- Georg Felix,
- Kirsten Krause,
- Mark Stahl,
- Markus Albert
Affiliations
- Volker Hegenauer
- Department of Biology, Molecular Plant Physiology
- Peter Slaby
- Department of Biology, Molecular Plant Physiology
- Max Körner
- Department of Biology, Molecular Plant Physiology
- Julien-Alexander Bruckmüller
- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology
- Ronja Burggraf
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology
- Isabell Albert
- Department of Biology, Molecular Plant Physiology
- Bettina Kaiser
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology
- Birgit Löffelhardt
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology
- Irina Droste-Borel
- Quantitative Proteomics & Proteome Center Tübingen
- Jan Sklenar
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia
- Frank L. H. Menke
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of East Anglia
- Boris Maček
- Quantitative Proteomics & Proteome Center Tübingen
- Aashish Ranjan
- Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis
- Neelima Sinha
- Department of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis
- Thorsten Nürnberger
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology
- Georg Felix
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology
- Kirsten Krause
- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology
- Mark Stahl
- Center for Plant Molecular Biology
- Markus Albert
- Department of Biology, Molecular Plant Physiology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19147-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Parasitic plants such as Cuscuta penetrate the shoots of susceptible hosts to obtain sugars, solutes and water. Here the authors show that resistant varieties of tomato can trigger an immune response against Cuscuta by perceiving a small glycine rich protein produced by the parasite.
