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Plant immune receptor engineered to protect against more than 100 viruses

Plant diseases constitute a constant threat to global food security. A protein-engineering strategy, in which a constitutively active form of an immune receptor is kept inactive by a peptide until it is cleaved by pathogen protease enzymes, confers durable and complete resistance against many viruses that affect crop plants.
This is a summary of: Wang, J. et al. Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09252-z (2025).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02113-9

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