Katagiri, Fumiaki
A major type of plant defense against pathogen is inducible defense:
i.e., defense mechanisms are turned on upon recognition of pathogen
attack. Research in my group is directed towards understanding (1) how
plants recognize pathogen attack and (2) how this recognition leads to
induction of coordinated responses in plants. We use Arabidopsis
thaliana and its bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae as a model to
study these problems. The type of resistance we mainly study is called
resistance ( R ) gene-mediated resistance. R gene-mediated resistance
is usually strong and based on highly specific recognition of
particular pathogen factors.
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