The concept of ETI was developed to
describe defense against pathogens that enter into plant cells (e.g. wheat rusts and mildews, potato late blight pathogens) and fits their defense mechanisms well.
Not exact matches
Our research enhances the traditional understanding of the plant
defense system and
describes a new concept
describing how plants protect themselves
against the
pathogens that grow in the space outside plant cells (the apoplast)-- a new concept called effector - triggered
defense or ETD.»
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
describe how myeloid differentiation factor (MyD88), a protein that plays a major role in mediating host
defense response
against invading
pathogens, is tightly regulated to prevent uncontrolled inflammation.