Wheat is one of the primary staple foods throughout the planet. Significant yield gains in
wheat production over the past 40 years have resulted in a steady balance of supply versus …

Fungi have developed a plethora of strategies to colonize plants, and these interactions
result in a broad spectrum of outcomes ranging from beneficial interactions to death of the …

Plant diseases caused by necrotrophic fungal pathogens result in large economic losses in
field crop production worldwide. Effectors are important players of plant-pathogen interaction …

One of most important challenges in plant breeding is improving resistance to the plethora of
pathogens that threaten our crops. The ever-growing world population, changing pathogen …

The rice (Oryza sativa) gene xa13 is a recessive resistance allele of Os-8N3, a member of
the NODULIN3 (N3) gene family, located on rice chromosome 8. Os-8N3 is a susceptibility …

Trichoderma spp. are a rich source of secondary metabolites (SMs). The recent publication
of the genome sequences of three Trichoderma spp. has revealed a vast repertoire of genes …

Fungi cause severe diseases on a broad range of crop and ornamental plants, leading to
significant economical losses. Plant pathogenic fungi exhibit a huge variability in their mode …

Secreted effector proteins enable plant pathogenic fungi to manipulate host defenses for
successful infection. Mycosphaerella graminicola causes Septoria tritici blotch disease of …

Bacterial blight (BB) is a globally devastating rice disease caused by Xanthomonas oryzae
pv. oryzae (Xoo). The use of disease resistance (R) genes in rice breeding is an effective …

Plant fungal pathogens can be classified according to their lifestyles. Biotrophs feed on
living tissue and constitute an economically significant group of pathogens historically …