March+11

Our topic for March 11 is:

Basal defense responses and pathogen virulence factors.

The reading assignment:

__Recommended Review__:  Segonzac and Zipfel 2011. Activation of plant pattern-recognition receptors by bacteria  Curr Op Microbiol 2011, 14:54–61 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21215683

 __Research Article for discussion:__  Goehre et al, 2008. Plant Pattern-Recognition Receptor FLS2 Is Directed for Degradation by the Bacterial Ubiquitin Ligase AvrPtoB  CURRENT BIOLOGY 18: 1824-1832 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19062288

 __Supplemental Reviews__  Geldner, N. and Robatzek, S. (2008). Plant receptors go endosomal: A moving view on signal transduction. Plant Phys. 147:1565-1574.

 Boller and Felix. 2009. Review on MAMPs. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 60:379-406.

 Tune in tomorrow for the questions.