Plant pathogens deliver effectors to manipulate processes in their hosts, creating a suitable environment for invasion and proliferation. Yet, little is known about the host proteins that are targeted ...

Phytopathogens deploy secreted effector proteins that interfere with different host cellular pathways to suppress plant immunity and redirect nutrient flow. Conventional effectors are small ...

A proposed model of how StFC-II was manipulated by RxLR effector Pi22922 to suppress host imunitiy. Phytophthora infestans RxLR effector Pi22922 was secreted from haustoria and translocated in the ...

Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi that interact with plants are distantly related and don't share many genetic similarities. Comparing plant pathogenic fungi and plant symbiotic fungi, scientists at the ...

University of Tübingen-led international research team discovers how a bacterium obtains additional nutrients for reproduction at the expense of the plant The bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas citri, ...