{"id":241478,"date":"2026-07-24T04:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/programmable-platform-enables-on-demand-design-of-plant-immune-receptors-against-crop-pathogens"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:24:27","slug":"programmable-platform-enables-on-demand-design-of-plant-immune-receptors-against-crop-pathogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/programmable-platform-enables-on-demand-design-of-plant-immune-receptors-against-crop-pathogens","title":{"rendered":"Programmable platform enables on-demand design of plant immune receptors against crop pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/programmable-platform-enables-on-demand-design-of-plant-immune-receptors-against-crop-pathogens.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crop production faces threats from plant pathogens. Traditional disease-resistance breeding relies heavily on natural plant resistance genes that encode immune receptors adapted to particular pathogens. However, rapidly evolving pathogens frequently overcome these natural defenses, and the limited diversity of naturally occurring immune receptors makes it difficult to develop crops with durable resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team led by Professor Gao Caixia at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of <i>Science<\/i>s has developed a programmable platform for the on-demand design of synthetic plant immune receptors (SPIRs) that recognize proteins from diverse plant pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published online in <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aee1792\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science<\/i><\/a> on July 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crop production faces threats from plant pathogens. Traditional disease-resistance breeding relies heavily on natural plant resistance genes that encode immune receptors adapted to particular pathogens. However, rapidly evolving pathogens frequently overcome these natural defenses, and the limited diversity of naturally occurring immune receptors makes it difficult to develop crops with durable resistance. Now, a team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241478","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}