Fumiaki Katagiri,Associate Professor of University of Minnesota.His research interests:A major type of plant defense against pathogen is inducible defense: i.e., defense mechanisms are turned on upon recognition of pathogen attack. Research in my group is directed towards understanding (1) how plants recognize pathogen attack and (2) how this recognition leads to induction of coordinated responses in plants. We use Arabidopsis and its bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae as a model to study these problems. The type of resistance we study is called resistance (R) gene-mediated resistance. R gene-mediated resistance is usually strong and based on highly specific recognition of particular pathogen factors.