Tokyo University team and RIKEN find new mechanism for plant infection by pathogens, expectations high to develop new bacteriocides

The groups of Midiko SODEOKA and Shisei TSUKIJI have found that the known fuction of coronatine, a toxin produced by Pseudomonas syringae and an analog of methyl jasmonic acid which causes stomata to re-open after a pathogen-associated plant response, is mediated by a new bypass mechanism involving the endoplasmic reticulum. This opens the opportunity to develop innovative bacteriocides which prevent plant pathogenic bacterial infections.

RIKEN news release, May 17, 2017

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