The aboveground parts of terrestrial plants are colonized by a variety of microbes that
collectively constitute the phyllosphere microbiota. Decades of pioneering work using …

Plant pathogens are one of the main factors hindering the breeding of cash crops.
Pathogens, including oomycetes, fungus, and bacteria, secrete effectors as invasion …

Many fungi and oomycete species are devasting plant pathogens. These eukaryotic
filamentous pathogens secrete effector proteins to facilitate plant infection. Fungi and …

Secretory proteins are conventionally transported through the endoplasmic reticulum to the
Golgi and then to the plasma membrane where they are released into the extracellular …

Rice blast is a serious fungal disease of rice (Oryza sativa L.) that is threatening global food
security. It has been extensively studied due to the importance of rice production and …

Plants can be colonized by fungi that have adopted highly diverse lifestyles, ranging from
symbiotic to necrotrophic. Colonization is governed in all systems by hundreds of secreted …

The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae causes a devastating disease that threatens
global rice (Oryza sativa) production. Despite intense study, the biology of plant tissue …

Fungi have developed a plethora of strategies to colonize plants, and these interactions
result in a broad spectrum of outcomes ranging from beneficial interactions to death of the …

Approximately a tenth of all described fungal species can cause diseases in plants. A
common feature of this process is the necessity to pass through the plant cell wall, an …

Wheat crops are frequently devastated by pandemic stripe rust caused by Puccinia
striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst). Here, we identify and characterize a wheat receptor-like …