Fungi occupy diverse environmental niches and many have evolved to live a pathogenic
lifestyle, causing devastating diseases in plants and animals. The interface between host …

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 …

Eukaryotic filamentous plant pathogens secrete effector proteins that modulate the host cell
to facilitate infection. Computational effector candidate identification and subsequent …

The plant apoplast is integral to intercellular signalling, transport and plant–pathogen
interactions. Plant pathogens deliver effectors both into the apoplast and inside host cells …

Pathogens and hosts are in an ongoing arms race and genes involved in host–pathogen
interactions are likely to undergo diversifying selection. Fusarium plant pathogens have …

Rhizoctonia solani is a fungal pathogen causing substantial damage to many of the worlds'
largest food crops including wheat, rice, maize and soybean. Despite impacting global food …

Advances in genomic and molecular technologies coupled with an increasing
understanding of the fine structure of many resistance and infectivity genes, have opened up …

Plant pathogens colonize their host through the secretion of effector proteins that modulate
plant metabolism and immune responses to their benefit. Plants evolve towards effector …

The success of plant‐pathogenic fungi mostly relies on their arsenal of virulence factors
which are expressed and delivered into the host tissue during colonization. The biotrophic …

Plant–pathogen interactions are controlled by a multilayered immune system, which is
activated by pathogen recognition in the host. Pathogens secrete effector molecules to …