Recent methodological advances have uncovered tremendous microbial diversity
cohabiting in the same host plant, and many of these microbes cause disease. In this review …

Studies of plant–pathogen interactions have historically focused on simple models of
infection involving single host-single disease systems. However, plant infections often …

Multiple infections, either simultaneous or sequential, affecting a single plant or crop are
now recognized to be common in plant disease epidemics. These multiple infections thus …

Plant and human pathogens have evolved disease factors to successfully exploit their
respective hosts. Phytopathogens utilize specific determinants that help to breach reinforced …

Highlights•Pathogen virulence and plant resistance genes are among the most variable
genes.•Selection on resistance alleles tends to be diversifying or balancing.•It is unclear …

Plant diseases are often thought to be caused by one species or even by a specific strain.
Microbes in nature, however, mostly occur as part of complex communities and this has …

Advances in genome-based studies on plant-associated microorganisms have transformed
our understanding of many plant pathogens and are beginning to greatly widen our …

Molecular factors enabling microbial pathogens to cause plant diseases have been sought
with increasing efficacy over three research eras that successively introduced the tools of …

Crop diseases emerge without warning. In many cases, diseases cross borders, or even
oceans, before plant pathologists have time to identify and characterize the causative …

Plants and pathogens evolve in response to each other. This coevolutionary arms race is
fueled by genetic variation underlying the recognition of pathogen proteins by the host and …