During the infection of a host, plant pathogenic fungi secrete small proteins called effectors,
which then modulate the defence response of the host. In the Fusarium oxysporum species …

Fruit losses during postharvest storage and handling due to pathogen infections are one of
the major problems in the global food chain supply. The application of chemical fungicides …

Botryosphaeria dieback, esca and Eutypa dieback are three economic major grapevine
trunk diseases that cause severe yield reduction in vineyards worldwide. The frequency of …

During the past decade, many genomes have been sequenced from fungal and oomycete
pathogens that interact biotrophically with plants, ie they thrive at least initially on living plant …

The interaction between plants and fungal pathogens comprises a range of mechanisms
that determine the outcome of the interaction, ie, compatible leading to susceptibility or …

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol) causes vascular wilt disease in tomato. Upon
colonization of the host, Fol secretes many small effector proteins into the xylem sap to …

Necrotrophic fungi, being the largest class of fungal plant pathogens, pose a serious
economic problem to crop production. They are the cause of heavy losses in agriculture …

Fungal phytopathogens have evolved efficient mechanisms that enable them to exploit the
plant nutrient reservoir for the purpose of growth and propagation. These are counteracted …

Plant pathogens secrete proteins, known as effectors, that function in the apoplast or inside
plant cells to promote virulence. Effector recognition by cell-surface or cytosolic receptors …