Pierre Jacob

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Pierre Jacob

Plant Science & Landscape Architecture Assistant Professor

Research Focus

  • The plant immune response in a stressful environment.
  • Plant response to environmental stress.
  • Gene discovery for increased resistance to biotic and abiotic stress.
  • Function of NLRs and TIR domains in immunity and beyond.

BISI Concentration Areas

MOCB


Latest Papers

Activation of the helper NRC4 immune receptor forms a hexameric resistosome

| Cell
Author(s): Furong Liu, Zhenlin Yang, Chao Wang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


Is localized acquired resistance the mechanism for effector-triggered disease resistance in plants?

| Nature Plants
Author(s): Pierre Jacob, Junko Hige, Jeffery L. Dangl
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


Con‐Ca2+‐tenating plant immune responses via calcium‐permeable cation channels

| New Phytologist
Author(s): Nak Hyun Kim, Pierre Jacob, Jeffery L. Dangl
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


Plant “helper” immune receptors are Ca 2+ -permeable nonselective cation channels

| Science
Author(s): Pierre Jacob, Nak Hyun Kim, Feihua Wu, et. al
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


The Seed Development Factors TT2 and MYB5 Regulate Heat Stress Response in Arabidopsis

| Genes
Author(s): Pierre Jacob, Gwilherm Brisou, Marion Dalmais, et. al
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


Two unequally redundant "helper" immune receptor families mediate Arabidopsis thaliana intracellular "sensor" immune receptor functions

| PLOS Biology
Author(s): Svenja C. Saile, Xinnian Dong, Pierre Jacob, et. al
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


Translational Research: Exploring and Creating Genetic Diversity

| Trends in Plant Science
Author(s): Pierre Jacob, Adi Avni, Abdelhafid Bendahmane
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


The heat‐shock protein/chaperone network and multiple stress resistance

| Plant Biotechnology Journal
Author(s): Pierre Jacob, Heribert Hirt, Abdelhafid Bendahmane
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


Broader functions of TIR domains in Arabidopsis immunity

Author(s): Pierre Jacob, Junko Hige, Lijiang Song, et. al
UMD Author(s): Pierre Jacob


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