Research Keyword: hormone signaling

Rhizoctonia solani Secretes RsCAP3 to Target Nb14–3–3b, Interfering with Hormone-Mediated Resistance in Tobacco

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A fungal disease that damages tobacco plants produces a protein called RsCAP3 that helps it evade plant immune defenses. This protein hijacks a plant defense regulator, causing the plant to activate the wrong defense pathway while suppressing another crucial defense mechanism. By manipulating these natural plant defenses, the fungus can infect the tobacco more easily, leading to disease.

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Low temperature, mechanical wound, and exogenous salicylic acid (SA) can stimulate the SA signaling molecule as well as its downstream pathway and the formation of fruiting bodies in Flammulina filiformis

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Researchers studied how cooling, physical damage, and a plant hormone called salicylic acid can trigger fruiting body formation in an edible mushroom called Flammulina filiformis. They discovered that these treatments activate specific genes in the mushroom that control fruit production. This research helps explain why mushroom farmers use these methods and could improve mushroom cultivation efficiency.

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Fungal symbiont Mycena complements impaired nitrogen utilization in Gastrodia elata and supplies indole-3-acetic acid to facilitate its seed germination

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Gastrodia elata is a special orchid that cannot make its own food and must rely entirely on a fungal partner called Mycena. Scientists discovered that the orchid has lost genes needed to use nitrogen and make growth hormones, while the fungus Mycena has kept these genes. By providing nitrogen and a hormone called auxin, the fungus helps the orchid seeds germinate and grow.

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