Plant-Microbe Interactions

Dear Colleagues,

One of the fundamental questions in biology is how plants, the sessile organisms, associate with different microbes that pose either pathogenesis, mutualism, or commensalism, as well as microbiota. Indeed, significant progress over the past thirty years has been made on the plant immune responses against pathogenic threats and the common signaling pathway for symbiotic interaction between plants and mutualistic microbes. However, both the ability of plants to distinguish friends from foes and the evolution of each specific type of plant–microbe interactions are unclear. This issue, entitled “Plant–Microbe Interactions”, will address questions including the molecular basis of plant–microbe interactions and the evolution of plant–microbe interactions.

Dr. Yangrong Cao
Prof. Dr. Hari B. Krishnan
Guest Editors

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