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 …

Pathogenic fungi have diverse growth lifestyles that support fungal colonization on plants.
Successful colonization and infection for all lifestyles depends upon the ability to modify …

Plant pathogens compromise crop yields. Plants have evolved robust innate immunity that
depends in part on intracellular Nucleotide‐binding, Leucine rich‐Repeat (NLR) immune …

Plants have evolved intracellular immune receptors to detect pathogen proteins known as
effectors. How these immune receptors detect effectors remains poorly understood. Here we …

Fungi and oomycetes are filamentous microorganisms that include a diversity of highly
developed pathogens of plants. These are sophisticated modulators of plant processes that …

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

Phytopathogenic ascomycete fungi possess huge effector repertoires that are dominated by
hundreds of sequence-unrelated small secreted proteins. The molecular function of these …

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

Effectors play a central role in determining the outcome of plant− pathogen interactions. As
key virulence proteins, effectors are collectively indispensable for disease development. By …

Some of the most devastating oomycete pathogens deploy effector proteins, with the
signature amino acid motif RXLR, that enter plant cells to promote virulence. Research on …