Advances in Plant Innate Immunity have been impressive during the last 5 years. Among the breakthroughs in this area, the discovery of the capacity of plants to specifically recognize pathogens by membrane resident receptors that bind molecules from the pathogen surface (Elicitors) should be remarked. This specific recognition triggers the plant innate immunity system activation, enhancing plant resistance to pathogen infection.

The preventive application to crop plants of elicitors result in plant “vaccination” enhancing the natural resistance to pathogens upon infection. The identification and characterization of plant Receptors enables the generation of novel crop varieties with improved resistance to pathogens and therefore, better performance.

“Plant vaccination” by plant pre- immunization with elicitors is a natural and robust resistance mechanism that has not been yet exploited in the crop protection field. The environmental and health rules and the social demands for a safer and environmental friendly agriculture offer a unique opportunity for the development of this technology.

Plant Response Biotech business mainly focuses in exploiting the Innate Immunity technology in crop protection.

To do so, we will work in two main research areas: 

1. 1.The identification of novel elicitors, in order to use them as inducers in Crop Protection.
   

2. 2.The identification and characterization of Receptors and downstream components for Plant Breeding programs to generate resistant varieties in crops of interest.

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