It is accepted that most fungal avirulence genes encode virulence factors that are called
effectors. Most fungal effectors are secreted, cysteine-rich proteins, and a role in virulence …

Rice is the staple diet of more than three billion people. Yields must double over the next 40
years if we are to sustain the nutritional needs of the ever-expanding global population …

Magnaporthe grisea is the most destructive pathogen of rice worldwide and the principal
model organism for elucidating the molecular basis of fungal disease of plants. Here, we …

Rice blast disease is caused by the hemibiotrophic fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, which
invades living plant cells using intracellular invasive hyphae (IH) that grow from one cell to …

A 12 kDa cysteine‐rich protein is secreted by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici during
colonization of tomato xylem vessels. Peptide sequences obtained with mass spectrometry …

Rice blast disease, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, threatens global food security. The rice
blast pathosystem is a longstanding model system for understanding plant-microbe …

Pathogens have evolved different strategies to overcome the various barriers that they
encounter during infection of their hosts. The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea causes …

Rice, as a widely and intensively cultivated crop, should be a target for parasite host shifts
and a source for shifts to co-occurring weeds. Magnaporthe oryzae, of the M. grisea species …

Isolates of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea that carry the gene encoding Avirulence
Conferring Enzyme1 (ACE1) are specifically recognized by rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars …

The Magnaporthe oryzae avirulence gene AvrPiz-t activates immunity in a gene-for-gene
fashion to rice mediated by the blast resistance gene Piz-t. To dissect the molecular …