Ensuring improved food security through control of immune response and ADP-ribosylation for healthier plants

1.Background/ Objectives and Goals Plants and crops are affected by abiotic stresses as well as by pathogens attack. To cope with stresses, there are several defense mechanisms relying on phyto-hormones, Nucleotide binding (NB) Leucine repeat region (LRR) receptor kinases or receptor like proteins (RLK, RLPs). These plasma membrane receptors sense the presence of molecular patterns, and activate downstream signaling that leads to Pattern Triggered Immunity (PTI) and Effector Triggered Immunity (ETI), which cooperate to protect surrounding cells from damage and pathogen spread. In the past years great advances have been made on the role of NLRs domains and helper proteins in the immune response without negative effects on plant growth or trade-off between plant safety and crop security.