Virtually all plants and animals, including humans, are home to symbiotic microorganisms.
Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects on the host …

Plant–fungal interactions in the soil crucially impact crop productivity and can range from
highly beneficial to detrimental. Accumulating evidence suggests that some root-colonizing …

Pathogen infection is a dynamic process. Here, we employ single-cell transcriptomics to
investigate plant response heterogeneity. By generating an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf atlas …

Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) strains are bacteria that colonize plant
xylem tissue and cause vascular wilt diseases. However, individual strains vary in host …

Vector-borne plant diseases have significant ecological and economic impacts, affecting
farm profitability and forest composition throughout the world. Bacterial vector-borne …

Global crop production is greatly reduced by vascular diseases. These diseases include
bacterial blight of rice and crucifer black rot caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae …

Plants prevent disease by passively and actively protecting potential entry routes against
invading microbes. For example, the plant immune system actively guards roots, wounds …

Beneficial microorganisms colonizing internal plant tissues, the endophytes, support their
host through plant growth promotion, pathogen protection, and abiotic stress alleviation …

The natural diversity of pathogen effectors and host immune components represents a
snapshot of the underlying evolutionary processes driving the host-pathogen arms race. In …

A group of aggressive pathogens have evolved to colonize the plant xylem. In this vascular
tissue, where water and nutrients are transported from the roots to the rest of the plant …