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

Highlights•Review of current methods in fungal plant pathogenicity effector protein
prediction.•Recent advances have been made in structural and machine learning-based …

Plant‐pathogenic fungi secrete effector proteins to facilitate infection. We describe extensive
improvements to EffectorP, the first machine learning classifier for fungal effector prediction …

Pathogens secrete effector proteins and many operate inside plant cells to enable infection.
Some effectors have been found to enter subcellular compartments by mimicking host …

Both pathogenic and symbiotic microorganisms modulate the immune response and
physiology of their host to establish a suitable niche. Key players in mediating colonization …

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 …

Structural biology has the potential to illuminate the evolution of pathogen effectors and their
commonalities that cannot be readily detected at the primary sequence level. Recent …

Nutritional deprivation triggers a switch from a saprotrophic to predatory lifestyle in soil-
dwelling nematode-trapping fungi (NTF). In particular, the NTF Arthrobotrys oligospora …

The oomycetes are a class of microscopic, filamentous eukaryotes within the stramenopiles-
alveolate-Rhizaria (SAR) supergroup and include ecologically significant animal and plant …

Magnaporthe AVRs and ToxB-like (MAX) effectors constitute a family of secreted virulence
proteins in the fungus Pyricularia oryzae (syn. Magnaporthe oryzae), which causes blast …