Rice is a global food grain crop for more than one-third of the human population and a
source for food and nutritional security. Rice production is subjected to various stresses; …

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 …

Pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI) in plants enable them
to respond to pathogens by activating the production of defence metabolites that orchestrate …

The rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae, causes one of the most destructive diseases of
cultivated rice in the world. Infections caused by this recalcitrant pathogen lead to the annual …

Typically, pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) are considered to be conserved
throughout classes of microbes and to contribute to general microbial fitness, whereas …

Resistance (R) proteins recognize pathogen avirulence (Avr) proteins by direct or indirect
binding and are multidomain proteins generally carrying a nucleotide binding (NB) and a …

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 …

Wheat blast is caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum pathotype (MoT). The
potential for wheat blast to cause widespread losses demands immediate action to …

Pathogenic fungi have diverse growth lifestyles that support fungal colonization on plants.
Successful colonization and infection for all lifestyles depends upon the ability to modify …

To cause plant diseases, pathogenic micro-organisms secrete effector proteins into host
tissue to suppress immunity and support pathogen growth. Bacterial pathogens have …