Plant diseases play a major limiting role in agricultural production. Our group mainly identifies maize disease resistance genes and elucidates the mechanisms by which maizes detect pathogen infection and trigger immune responses.
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3. Bi G, Zhou J-M. (2021) Regulation of cell death and signaling by pore-forming resistosomes, Annu Rev Phytopathol, 59: 239-263
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5. Bi G#, Zhou Z#, Wang W#, Li L, Rao S, Wu Y, Zhang X, Menke F, Chen S, Zhou J-M. (2018) Receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases directly link diverse pattern recognition receptors to the activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades in Arabidopsis, Plant Cell, 30: 1543-1561
6. Bi G, Zhou J-M. (2017) MAP kinase signaling pathways: a hub of plant-microbe interactions, Cell Host Microbe, 21: 270-273
7. Bi G, Liebrand T, Bye R, Postma J, Burgh A, Robatzek S, Xu X*, Joosten M*. (2016) SOBIR1 requires the GxxxG dimerization motif in its transmembrane domain to form constitutive complexes with receptor-like proteins, Mol Plant Pathol, 17: 96-107
8. Yuan M, Jiang Z, Bi G, Nomura K, Liu M, Wang Y, Cai B, Zhou J-M, He S, Xin X-F.(2021) Pattern-recognition receptors are required for NLR-mediated plant immunity, Nature, 592: 105-109
9. Zhou Z, Zhao Y, Bi G, Liang X, Zhou Jian-Min. (2019) Early signalling mechanisms underlying receptor kinase-mediated immunity in plants, Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 374: 20180310
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11. Liang X, Ma M, Zhou Z, Wang J, Yang X, Rao S, Bi G, Li L, Zhang X, Chai J, Chen S, Zhou J-M. (2018) Ligand-triggered de-repression of Arabidopsis heterotrimeric G proteins coupled to immune receptor kinases, Cell Res, 28(5): 529-543
12. Wu J, Burgh A, Bi G, Zhang L, Alfano J, Martin G, Joosten M. (2018) The bacterial effector AvrPto targets the regulatory co-receptor SOBIR 1 and suppresses defence signalling mediated by the receptor-like protein Cf-4, Mol Plant Microbe Interact, 31(1): 75-85
13. Rao S, Zhou Z, Miao P, Bi G, Hu M, Wu Y, Feng F, Zhang X, Zhou J-M. (2018) Roles of receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase VII members in pattern-triggered immune signaling, Plant Physiol, 177: 1679-16903.
14. Postma J, Liebrand T, Bi G, Evrard A, Bye R, Mbengue M, Kuhn H, Joosten M, Robatzek S. (2016) Avr4 promotes Cf-4 receptor-like protein association with the BAK1/SERK3 receptor-like kinase to initiate receptor endocytosis and plant immunity, New Phytol, 210: 627-642
