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The paper identifies a sugar-transferring enzyme (UDP-glucosyltransferase) as an important component of the broadest-spectrum disease resistance response in plants.

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The work may help engineering or breeding crops with durable disease resistance. It also supports our understanding of the overall plant immune response.

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This page is a summary of: UDP‐glucosyltransferase UGT84A2/BRT1 is required for Arabidopsis nonhost resistance to the Asian soybean rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi, New Phytologist, January 2013, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12155.
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