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

Plants possess large arsenals of immune receptors capable of recognizing all pathogen
classes. To cause disease, pathogenic organisms must be able to overcome physical …

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 …

Chitin is a fungal microbe-associated molecular pattern recognized in Arabidopsis by a lysin
motif receptor kinase (LYK), AtCERK1. Previous research suggested that AtCERK1 is the …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can form a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship
with most land plants. They are known to secrete lysin motif (LysM) effectors into host root …

The battle between plants and microbes is evolutionarily ancient, highly complex, and often
co-dependent. A primary challenge for microbes is to breach the physical barrier of host cell …

Plant innate immunity relies in first place on the detection of invading microbes. Thus, plants
evolved receptors to sense unique molecules of the microbe, the so called microbe …

Rice feeds more than half of the world's population. Rice blast, caused by the fungal
pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, and bacterial blight, caused by the bacterial pathogen …

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 …

Chitin, a potential allergy-promoting pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP), is a
linear polymer composed of N-acetylglucosamine residues which are linked by β-(1, 4) …