Plants inhabit environments crowded with infectious microbes that pose constant threats to
their survival. Necrotrophic pathogens are notorious for their aggressive and wide-ranging …

Necrotrophic pathogens cause major pre-and post-harvest diseases in numerous
agronomic and horticultural crops inflicting significant economic losses. In contrast to …

Necrotrophic pathogenic bacteria, fungi and oomycetes are widely distributed and are
responsible for significant crop losses. Host plants deploy different defense mechanisms …

Plant fungal pathogens can be classified according to their lifestyles. Biotrophs feed on
living tissue and constitute an economically significant group of pathogens historically …

Recent advances along numerous research avenues show that plant interactions with
biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens use similar pathways with opposing effects. The …

Fungal plant pathologists have for many decades attempted to classify pathogens into
groups called necrotrophs, biotrophs and, more recently, hemibiotrophs. Although these …

Necrotrophic fungal pathogens cause considerable disease on numerous economically
important crops. Some of these pathogens are specialized to one or a few closely related …

Background Annual Medicago spp., including M. truncatula, play an important agronomic
role in dryland farming regions of the world where they are often an integral component of …

The hypersensitive response (HR), elicited when resistant hosts are infected by
incompatible races of biotrophic fungi, has been researched extensively. New studies on …

Plant diseases caused by necrotrophic fungal pathogens result in large economic losses in
field crop production worldwide. Effectors are important players of plant-pathogen interaction …