Iaroslav Ispolatov & Michael Doebeli Department of Zoology and Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 Abstract The Guard-Guardee model for plant immunity describes how resistance proteins (guards) in host cells monitor host target proteins (guardees) that are manipulated by pathogen effector proteins. A recently suggested extension of this mode...

Decades of research have revealed notable similarities between the immune systems plant and animal kingdoms. Liquiritin has long been used to stimulate body immunity in animals against a...

artificial immune systems (ais) can be defined as soft computing systems inspired by immune system of vertebrates. immune system is an adaptive pattern recognition system. ais have been used in pattern recognition, machine learning, optimization and clustering. feature reduction refers to the problem of selecting those input features that are most predictive of a given outcome; a problem encoun...

The persistence of enteric pathogens on plants has been studied extensively, mainly due to the potential hazard of human pathogens such as Salmonella enterica being able to invade and survive in/on plants. Factors involved in the interactions between enteric bacteria and plants have been identified and consequently it was hypothesized that plants may be vectors or alternative hosts for enteric ...

A mechanistic understanding of how plant pathogens modulate their hosts is critical for rationally engineered disease resistance in agricultural systems. Two new studies show that genomically paired plant immune receptors have incorporated decoy domains that structurally mimic pathogen virulence targets to monitor attempted host immunosuppression.