Meeting Programme
Dr Christine Faulkner (Oxford Brookes University)
The regulation of cell-to-cell communication during pathogen invasion
- Cell-to-cell communication is a fundamental biological process, necessary for co-ordination of development and environmental responses in multicellular organisms. The receptor-like protein AtLYM2 is located at plasmodesmata and mediates chitin-triggered changes to cell-to-cell communication during fungal pathogen invasion . AtLYM2 functions independently of the chitin receptor CERK1 and thus identifies that there are multiple chitin perception mechanisms in plants.