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Role of Ubiquitination in Plant Innate Immunity and Pathogen Virulence

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Plant diseases are a major constraint for stable crop production in the world. Plants are constantly threatened by different pathogens and have developed an array of mechanisms to defend themselves. A growing body of evidence indicates that ubiquitination, which is one of the most important cellular processes for protein modification in eukaryotic organisms, is involved in the regulation of host defense signaling. Pathogens also exploit ubiquitination to block or interfere with plant defenses. Recent studies in a few model plants have demonstrated that ubiquitination plays a critical role in plant–pathogen interactions that lead either to plant resistance or to successful pathogen invasion of the plant host. This review discusses recent findings about the functions of ubiquitination in host defense and pathogen invasion.

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We thank the financial support from Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, #30828022 and #30871335), the “973” Project (2006CB101904) and U.S. NSF Plant Genome Research Program (#0605017).

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  1. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, 410128, China

    Liangying Dai, Yajun Hu, Xuejun Wang & Guo-Liang Wang

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Gautam Shirsekar & Guo-Liang Wang

  3. Biology Department, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, 72204, USA

    Lirong Zeng

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G. Shirsekar and L. Dai contributed equally to this work.

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Shirsekar, G., Dai, L., Hu, Y. et al. Role of Ubiquitination in Plant Innate Immunity and Pathogen Virulence. J. Plant Biol. 53, 10–18 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12374-009-9087-x

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