Protein-RNA control networks at the plant-pathogen interface.

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conclusionPlant immunity depends on coordinated control of signaling gain, molecular persistence, RNA fate, interorganismal exchange and timely attenuation, defining testable routes to durable disease control. Plant immunity is often reviewed as a sequence of receptor activation, transcriptional reprogramming, and antimicrobial output. That organization is useful, but it obscures a central mechanistic problem: immune performance depends on coupled control of protein abundance, RNA fate, interorganismal exchange and response termination. Here, we develop an evidence-weighted protein-RNA control-loop framework that is explicitly differentiated from receptor-, proteostasis-, RNA-silencing- and extracellular-vesicle-centered reviews. The framework organizes plant-pathogen interactions around five experimentally tractable control variables: signaling gain, molecular persistence, RNA routing, interorganismal exchange and memory versus cost. We evaluate how pattern-recognition receptors and nucleotide-binding leucine-rich-repeat receptors set signaling gain; ubiquitination, SUMOylation, proteasomal turnover and autophagy determine persistence; RNA-binding proteins, alternative splicing, N