[2015 Fall Life Sciences & IBB Regular Seminar]
          
            
        ▶Subject: Genetic basis of plant disease resistance and its impact on our future
          
        ▶Speaker: Prof. Kee Hoon Sohn (POSTECH)
                  
        ▶Date: 4:00PM/Sept./4(Fri.)/2015
           
        ▶Place: Auditorium(1F), Postech Biotech Center
          
                *Abctract
              Food supply is limited, human population is increasing rapidly and use of agrichemicals is not favoured. We must increase crop productivity by using environmentally friendly method. Plants and their microbial pathogens co-evolve their mechanisms of detection and its evasion. Plants use specialized immune receptors to detect invading pathogens and activate a complex network of immune responses. In plants, disease resistance (R) proteins recognize pathogen-derived effector molecules and activate innate immunity. How R proteins activate signaling cascades, in particular transcriptional responses, upon recognition of pathogen effectors, is one of the most important yet unsolved questions in plant biology. In this presentation, the genetic basis of plant disease resistance and its potential impact on our future food security will be discussed.

                        
          * This seminar will be given in English.
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