Receptor kinases in plant responses to herbivory

Plants have the ability to detect and respond biotic stresses. They contain pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) that specifically recognize conserved molecules from their enemies activate immune responses. In this review, I discuss recent efforts discover PRRs for herbivory-associated cues originate oral secretions, eggs, damaged plant cells or secondary endogenous signals. Although several potential been identified shown confer resistance insects, proof of direct binding a ligand is scarce there are still many uncharacterized ligand-receptor pairs. However, studies suggest that, like microbial pathogens, plants use similar PRR complexes herbivory.