Plant Immunity Research Group

Towards sustainable crop protection strategy

The main goal of my group is to understand the molecular mechanism of immunity in plants. We plan to systematically identify and characterize genes, proteins and small molecular compounds that are important for the defense by using genomics, proteomics and metabolomics approaches. We aim to elucidate signaling network system for plant immunity by analyzing expression patterns of defense related genes and their post transcriptional regulation, such as protein modification.Pathogen infection of plants is economically damaging to agricultural industries worldwide.Understanding the molecular basis of disease resistance mechanisms plants utilize in nature will provide new strategies to combat pathogens.