Filamentous plant pathogens cause disease in numerous economically important crops.
These pathogens secrete virulence proteins, termed effectors, that modulate host cellular …

Rice production needs to be sustained in the coming decades, as the changeable climatic
conditions are becoming more conducive to disease outbreaks. The majority of rice …

Plant nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors recognize avirulence
effectors directly through their integrated domains (IDs) or indirectly via the effector-targeted …

Structural biology has the potential to illuminate the evolution of pathogen effectors and their
commonalities that cannot be readily detected at the primary sequence level. Recent …

In plants, host–pathogen coevolution often manifests in reciprocal, adaptive genetic
changes through variations in host nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat immune receptors …

Exocytosis plays an important role in plant–microbe interactions, in both pathogenesis and
symbiosis. Exo70 proteins are integral components of the exocyst, an octameric complex …

Nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) are intracellular plant immune
receptors that recognize pathogen effectors secreted into the plant cell. Canonical NLRs …

Bioengineering of plant immune receptors has emerged as a key strategy for generating
novel disease resistance traits to counteract the expanding threat of plant pathogens to …

Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most devastating diseases of rice.
During infection, M. oryzae secretes effectors to facilitate blast development. Among these …

Accelerated gene evolution is a hallmark of pathogen adaptation and specialization
following host-jumps. However, the molecular processes associated with adaptive evolution …