Abstract
Plasmodesmata (PD) are gated plant cell wall channels that allow the trafficking of molecules between cells and play important roles during plant development and in the orchestration of cellular and systemic signaling responses during interactions of plants with the biotic and abiotic environment. To allow gating, PD are equipped with signaling platforms and enzymes that regulate the size exclusion limit (SEL) of the pore. Plant-interacting microbes and viruses target PD with specific effectors to enhance their virulence and are useful probes to study PD functions.
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Huang, C., Heinlein, M. (2022). Function of Plasmodesmata in the Interaction of Plants with Microbes and Viruses. In: Benitez-Alfonso, Y., Heinlein, M. (eds) Plasmodesmata. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2457. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2132-5_2
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