Plant diseases are responsible for substantial crop losses each year and pose a threat to
global food security and agricultural sustainability. Improving crop resistance to pathogens …

Xanthomonas is a well-studied genus of bacterial plant pathogens whose members cause a
variety of diseases in economically important crops worldwide. Genomic and functional …

Diverse and rapidly evolving pathogens cause plant diseases and epidemics that threaten
crop yield and food security around the world. Research over the last 25 years has led to an …

Various conceptual models to describe the plant immune system have been presented. The
most recent paradigm to gain wide acceptance in the field is often referred to as the zigzag …

Plant pathogens have optimized their own effector sets to adapt to their hosts. However,
certain effectors, regarded as core effectors, are conserved among various pathogens, and …

Background Roots are the primary site for plant-microbe interactions. Among the three root-
associated layers (ie, rhizosphere, rhizoplane, and endorhiza), the rhizoplane is a key …

Plant diseases cause significant reductions in agricultural productivity worldwide. Disease
symptoms have deleterious effects on the growth and development of crop plants, limiting …

Broad-spectrum resistance has great values for crop breeding. However, its mechanisms
are largely unknown. Here, we report the cloning of a maize NLR gene, RppK, for resistance …

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 …

Plant diseases caused by diverse pathogens lead to a serious reduction in crop yield and
threaten food security worldwide. Genetic improvement of plant immunity is considered as …