Many species of fungi and oomycetes are plant pathogens of great economic importance.
Over the past 7 years, the genomes of more than 30 of these filamentous plant pathogens …

Plant pathogenic oomycetes secrete a diverse repertoire of effector proteins that modulate
host innate immunity and enable parasitic infection. Understanding how effectors evolve …

Potato is produced on all continents except Antarctica and is the world's third most important
food crop. Potato production has increased dramatically in developing countries in the past …

Recent discoveries regarding small RNAs and the mechanisms of gene silencing are
providing new opportunities to explore fungal pathogen–host interactions and potential …

The obligate biotrophic rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina is the most devastating and
widespread pathogen of poplars. Studies over recent years have identified various small …

Phytopathogenic oomycetes, such as Phytophthora infestans, secrete an arsenal of effector
proteins that modulate plant innate immunity to enable infection. We describe CRN8, a host …

SUMMARY Coffee (Coffea arabica L.), one of the key export and cash crops in tropical and
subtropical countries, suffers severe losses from the rust fungus Hemileia vastatrix. The …

R hynchosporium commune is a haploid fungus causing scald or leaf blotch on barley, other
Hordeum spp. and B romus diandrus. Taxonomy Rhynchosporium commune is an …

Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis (Hpa) is an obligate biotroph oomycete pathogen of the
model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and contains a large set of effector proteins that are …

Transposable elements are ubiquitous residents in eukaryotic genomes. Often considered to
be genomic parasites, they can lead to dramatic changes in genome organization, gene …