A pectin lyase-like protein from Verticillium dahliae activates immunity in eggplant through translation regulation

Acknowledgements

We thank Dr Xiaobin Ji from Northwest A&F University for suggestions on the project. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (32270752, 32270292), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong (2024A1515011071, 2019A1515110330), the Program for Changjiang Scholars, and the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF (GZB20240238).

Author contributions

J.L., T.L., and C.Y. supervised the project; C.L., S.C., Y.L., X.L., W.Y., C.Z., and B.S. conducted the experiments; C.L. and J.L. wrote the manuscript.

Data availability

All the data will be shared on request to the corresponding authors.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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