Broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight in rice using genome editing

R Oliva, C Ji, G Atienza-Grande, JC Huguet-Tapia… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bacterial blight of rice is an important disease in Asia and Africa. The pathogen,
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), secretes one or more of six known transcription …

Engineering broad-spectrum bacterial blight resistance by simultaneously disrupting variable TALE-binding elements of multiple susceptibility genes in rice

Z Xu, X Xu, Q Gong, Z Li, Y Li, S Wang, Y Yang, W Ma… - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), the causal agent of bacterial blight of rice, employs
the transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) to induce the expression of the OsSWEET …

AnnoTALE: bioinformatics tools for identification, annotation and nomenclature of TALEs from Xanthomonas genomic sequences

J Grau, M Reschke, A Erkes, J Streubel, RD Morgan… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) are virulence factors, produced by the bacterial
plant-pathogen Xanthomonas, that function as gene activators inside plant cells. Although …

Genomics-Enabled Novel Insight Into the Pathovar-Specific Population Structure of the Bacterial Leaf Streak Pathogen Xanthomonas translucens in Small Grain …

SMA Shah, M Khojasteh, Q Wang, SM Taghavi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas translucens infects a wide range of gramineous
plants with a notable impact on small grain cereals. However, genomics-informed intra …

Functional analysis of African Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae TALomes reveals a new susceptibility gene in bacterial leaf blight of rice

TT Tran, AL Pérez-Quintero, I Wonni… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Most Xanthomonas species translocate Transcription Activator-Like (TAL) effectors into plant
cells where they function like plant transcription factors via a programmable DNA-binding …

Consequences of adaptation of TAL effectors on host susceptibility to Xanthomonas

D Teper, N Wang - PLoS Genetics, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) are virulence factors of Xanthomonas that
induce the expression of host susceptibility (S) genes by specifically binding to effector …

Comparative Genomics of Barley-Infecting Xanthomonas translucens Shows Overall Genetic Similarity but Globally Distributed Virulence Factor Diversity

N Heiden, V Roman-Reyna, RD Curland… - …, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
Xanthomonas translucens pv. translucens (Xtt) is a global barley patho-gen and a concern
for resistance breeding and regulation. Long-read whole genome sequences allow in-depth …

Effector Diversification Contributes to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Phenotypic Adaptation in a Semi-Isolated Environment

IL Quibod, A Perez-Quintero, NJ Booher, GS Dossa… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the processes that shaped contemporary pathogen populations in
agricultural landscapes is quite important to define appropriate management strategies and …

Evolution of Transcription Activator-Like Effectors in Xanthomonas oryzae

A Erkes, M Reschke, J Boch… - Genome biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) are secreted by plant–pathogenic
Xanthomonas bacteria into plant cells where they act as transcriptional activators and …

Functional and genome sequence-driven characterization of tal effector gene repertoires reveals novel variants with altered specificities in closely related malian …

H Doucouré, AL Pérez-Quintero… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Rice bacterial leaf blight (BLB) is caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) which
injects Transcription Activator-Like Effectors (TALEs) into the host cell to modulate the …