Live-imaging of plant-pathogenic microbe interaction

Abstract

Plant-pathogenic microbe interaction is a complex phenomenon that is initiated by the recognition of both organisms at the site of infection and dynamically changes as the plant immune system and the pathogenic microbial virulence system interact with each other. Live imaging is an important tool to correctly capture such a dynamic phenomenon that includes spatio-temporal dynamics and to understand its molecular mechanisms. Here, we present an example of our work analyzing the spatio-temporal dynamics of defense response marker gene expression.