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SUBMITTER: Petre B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7472956 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in immunology 20200821
Defense peptides protect multicellular eukaryotes from infections. In biomedical sciences, a dominant conceptual framework refers to defense peptides as host-defense peptides (HDPs), which are bifunctional peptides with both direct antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities. No HDP has been reported in plants so far, and the very concept of HDP has not been captured yet by the plant science community. Plant science thus lacks the conceptual framework that would coordinate research efforts aim ...[more]