Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food crop, feeding more than 50% of the world's population.
Diseases caused by bacterial, fungal, and viral pathogens constantly threaten the rice …

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola cause bacterial
blight and bacterial leaf streak of rice (Oryza sativa), which constrain production of this staple …

The pathogenicity of many bacteria depends on the injection of effector proteins via type III
secretion into eukaryotic cells in order to manipulate cellular processes. TAL (transcription …

TAL (transcription activator–like) effectors, secreted by phytopathogenic bacteria, recognize
host DNA sequences through a central domain of tandem repeats. Each repeat comprises …

Plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Xanthomonas cause a variety of diseases in
economically important monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous crop plants worldwide …

Background Genome editing tools are important for functional genomics research and
biotechnology applications. Recently, the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

Many disease resistance (R) proteins of plants detect the presence of disease-causing
bacteria, viruses, or fungi by recognizing specific pathogen effector molecules that are …

Many bacterial diseases of plants depend on the interaction of type III effector genes of the
pathogen and disease-susceptibility genes of the host. The host susceptibility genes are …

Pathogenicity of many Gram-negative bacteria relies on the injection of effector proteins by
type III secretion into eukaryotic cells, where they modulate host signaling pathways to the …

The gene-for-gene concept has historically been applied to describe a specific resistance
interaction wherein single genes from the host and the pathogen dictate the outcome. These …