Rethinking Growth and Defense: miR472 as a Sensor and Regulator of Plant Immunity

Institutet 2024;Weiberg et al. 2014). Pathogens pose significant threats to plant survival, and plants rely on a sophisticated immune system to combat them.The plant immune system has two layers: pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity (PTI), mediated by surface pattern recognition receptors, and effector-triggered immunity (ETI), driven by intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins (Chai et al.