{"id":230251,"date":"2026-01-31T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/insect-salivary-effectors-disrupt-piezo1-centric-mechanoimmunity-against-piercing-sucking-vectors"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:09:49","slug":"insect-salivary-effectors-disrupt-piezo1-centric-mechanoimmunity-against-piercing-sucking-vectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/insect-salivary-effectors-disrupt-piezo1-centric-mechanoimmunity-against-piercing-sucking-vectors","title":{"rendered":"Insect salivary effectors disrupt PIEZO1-centric mechanoimmunity against piercing-sucking vectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/insect-salivary-effectors-disrupt-piezo1-centric-mechanoimmunity-against-piercing-sucking-vectors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huang et al. identify the mechanosensitive channel <i>PIEZO1<\/i> as a plant immune hub that decodes insect-feeding-derived mechanical forces and Ca2+-activated defense responses. They characterize a self-amplifying immune circuit and identify that Bsp9, an evolutionarily conserved insect salivary effector, subverts this pathway. This work provides a framework for engineering plant disease resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huang et al. identify the mechanosensitive channel PIEZO1 as a plant immune hub that decodes insect-feeding-derived mechanical forces and Ca2+-activated defense responses. They characterize a self-amplifying immune circuit and identify that Bsp9, an evolutionarily conserved insect salivary effector, subverts this pathway. This work provides a framework for engineering plant disease resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}