Live-cell imaging assisted by fluorescent markers has been fundamental to understanding
the focused secretory'warfare'that occurs between plants and biotrophic pathogens that feed …

The filamentous fungus Magnaporthe oryzae causes rice blast, the most serious disease of
cultivated rice. Cellular differentiation of M. oryzae forms an infection structure called the …

Phytopathogens secrete effector proteins to manipulate their hosts for effective colonization.
Hemibiotrophic fungi must maintain host viability during initial biotrophic growth and elicit …

Small RNA s (sRNA s), an important type of pathogenicity factor, contribute to impairing host
immune responses. However, little is known about sRNA s in Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici …

The rice blast pathosystem has been the subject of intense interest in part because of the
importance of the disease to world agriculture, but also because both Magnaporthe oryzae …

A never-ending arms race drives coevolution between pathogens and hosts. In plants,
pathogen attacks invoke multiple layers of host immune responses. Many pathogens deliver …

Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, is the most devastating
disease of rice and severely affects crop stability and sustainability worldwide. This disease …

To cause rice blast disease, the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae produces biotrophic invasive
hyphae that secrete effectors at the host–pathogen interface. Effectors facilitate disease …

Many phytopathogenic fungi exert their destructive effects by producing and secreting toxic
low molecular weight compounds. In the past years a large number of novel fungal virulence …

Fungi and oomycetes deliver effectors into living plant cells to suppress defenses and
control plant processes needed for infection. Little is known about the mechanism by which …