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#PlantScienceClassics #7: The ZigZag Model.15 years ago @jonathandgjones & Jeff Dangl published their @nature review integrating Pattern/PAMP-Triggered Immunity (PTI) & Effector-Triggered Immunity (ETI) into one unified model of ‘The plant immune system’. doi.org/10.1038/nature… 
In the 1980s, with plant molecular biology still in its infancy, the plant immune system was not understood very well at all. Dangl, at the time an immunologist working on mouse/human cells, remembers: ‘I had never considered that plants could recognize pathogens’.
But this fact, that the molecular mechanisms of the plant immune system were still basically a ‘black box’, is exactly what got Dangl interested and motivated to switch fields, and join the group of Klaus Hahlbrock at the @mpipz_cologne to work on plant immunity.
