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bioorganic chemistry

Researchers from the Alexander Mishin, Tatiana Mityushkina and Ilia Yampolsky laboratories at the Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, working in an international collaboration, have introduced a system that makes it possible to non-invasively monitor the activity of two key plant defence signalling pathways in living plants: the salicylic acid and jasmonic acid pathways. The authors created plant lines expressing autoluminescent reporters, allowing the plant to emit light only at the time and in the tissues where defence mechanisms against pathogens and pests are activated. The work was published in Nature Communications. Learn more