Nov152013

Papers:

Questions:

1. What are the different strategies currently deployed to control crop pests?

2. Which came first -- the PRR, the effector or the NLR, from an evolutionary standpoint?

3. Components of the innate immune system seem to be functionally conserved across diverse hosts (plants and animals) and in response to diverse pathogens (bacterial, viral, fungal, etc.). Why would this be?

4. What are the advantages of using R genes to protect crops from pathogens? Compare/contrast the different types of genetic resistance (PRR-, NLR-, "executor" -mediated resistance and manipulation of host susceptibility genes).

5. What are some of the limitations of genetic strategies to control crop diseases?

6. What was the rationale for using RNAseq to identify the Bs4c resistance gene?

7. If deployed in the field, would Bs4c provide durable resistance?