Several plant pathogens severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global
food security. In order to cope with this challenge, genetic improvement of plant disease …

APETALA2/ethylene response factor (AP2/ERF) is widely found in the plant kingdom and
plays crucial roles in transcriptional regulation and defense response of plant growth and …

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 …

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 …

Environmental stresses greatly limit crop yield. With the increase in extreme weather events
due to climate change and the constant pressure of diseases and pests, there is an urgent …

Background Bacterial blight of rice, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is a
devastating rice disease in Southeast Asia and West Africa. OsSWEET14, encoding a sugar …

To successfully infect plants, pathogens secrete effector proteins to the plant apoplast or
inside plant cells, where they suppress plant immunity or interfere with other cellular …

Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis (Xpm) and X. cassavae (Xc) are two bacterial
pathogens attacking cassava. Cassava bacterial blight (CBB) is a systemic disease caused …

The increasing demand for food is the result of an increasing population. It is crucial to
enhance crop yield for sustainable production. Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs) have gained …

Plants are vulnerable to disease through pathogen manipulation of phytohormone levels,
which otherwise regulate development, abiotic, and biotic responses. Here, we show that …