New receptor found by UC Berkeley researchers helps plants fight disease

While humans continue to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, campus scientists have discovered a way for plants to fight off agricultural pandemics, according to a recently published study.
Printed Friday in Science Magazine, the study outlines how a team of researchers discovered the functionalities and structural components of a plant immune receptor called the ROQ1 resistosome, which can recognize and effectively attack invasive pathogens. According to a press release by campus Innovative Genomics Institute, these findings will play an important role in prohibiting disease spread across many plant species and crops.
“Surprisingly, the mechanism of binding to the pathogen is similar to how antibodies, which plants lack, recognize an antigen,” said Raoul Martin, a UC Berkeley biophysics graduate student who worked on the study, in an email.

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