Hacking the immune system: plant immune protease engineering for crop protection

Mariana Schuster, Alexander L. Ciattoni & Renier A. L. van der Hoorn

Journal of Experimental Botany, eraf137, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf137

Published: 28 March 2025


Abstract: Genome engineering technologies allow the generation of crops with increased disease resistance, though selecting suitable targets remains challenging. Our team has published two recent studies that highlight the potential of engineering plant immune proteases as an alternative approach to generating disease resistant plants.

Keywords: Protease, plant, protein engineering, crop protection


This publication was created with the involvement of the SNP2Prot project C05.

You can read the full story here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf137