Innate immunity of plants against viruses does not act as anticipated
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
The so-called immune receptor Rx, conferring the resistance of some potato cultivars against potato virus X, does recognise the viruses in the cytoplasm, but unexpectedly its presence in the nucleus is also required for an effective defence response. Erik Slootweg and Wladimir Tameling, scientists of two different Chair Groups of Wageningen University, The Netherlands, have with a number of colleagues published this striking finding in two papers published in the same issue of the scientific journal The Plant Cell.