Epidemics caused by fungal plant pathogens pose a major threat to agro-ecosystems and
impact global food security. High-throughput sequencing enabled major advances in …

The interaction of pathogens with their hosts creates strong reciprocal selection pressures.
Pathogens often deploy an arsenal of small proteins called effectors that manipulate the …

Filamentous pathogens, including fungi and oomycetes, pose major threats to global food
security. Crop pathogens cause damage by secreting effectors that manipulate the host to …

Fungal pathogens of plants and animals have multifarious effects; they cause devastating
damages to agricultures, lead to life-threatening diseases in humans, or induce beneficial …

The fungal kingdom comprises some of the most devastating plant pathogens. Sequencing
the genomes of fungal pathogens has shown a remarkable variability in genome size and …

Highlights•Plant pathogens produce effectors to interfere with host defences and
metabolism.•Effector genes are among the most rapidly evolving genes in pathogen …

Identifying the genes underlying adaptation, their distribution in genomes and the
evolutionary forces shaping genomic diversity are key challenges in evolutionary biology …

Understanding the biology of infections requires knowledge about the intricate molecular
dialogue between plants and pathogens. Some components of this molecular dialogue are …

Microbial pathogens cause devastating diseases on economically and ecologically
important plant species, threatening global food security, and causing billions of dollars of …

Food security is of global importance and crop diseases caused by plant pathogens are a
major constraint to agriculture worldwide. Many of these pathogens have a similar biotrophic …