Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Independently evolved viral effectors convergently suppress DELLA protein SLR1-mediated broad-spectrum antiviral immunity in rice

  • Lulu Li,
  • Hehong Zhang,
  • Zihang Yang,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Shanshan Li,
  • Chen Cao,
  • Tongsong Yao,
  • Zhongyan Wei,
  • Yanjun Li,
  • Jianping Chen,
  • Zongtao Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34649-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Plant viruses adopt diverse strategies to inhibit host antiviral defense. Here the authors show that multiple different effectors from various rice viruses interfere with host gibberellin signaling by targeting the DELLA protein SLR1.