Regulation of the signaling processes that recruit, potentiate or trigger cellular defense responses in soybean.

T. L. Graham

Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University

Successful plant defense involves a tightly programmed spatial and temporal network of cellular responses. Even within a simple resistant disease lesion cells take on distinct and complementary functions. We are investigating the inter- and intracellular signaling processes that recruit and program the fate of cells within a disease lesion and those which subsequently trigger the ultimate defense responses.