Xanthomonas diversity, virulence and plant–pathogen interactions

S Timilsina, N Potnis, EA Newberry… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Xanthomonas spp. encompass a wide range of plant pathogens that use numerous
virulence factors for pathogenicity and fitness in plant hosts. In this Review, we examine …

Engineering disease resistant plants through CRISPR-Cas9 technology

S Tyagi, R Kumar, V Kumar, SY Won, P Shukla - GM Crops & Food, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Plants are susceptible to phytopathogens, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, which
cause colossal financial shortfalls (pre-and post-harvest) and threaten global food safety. To …

NRG1 functions downstream of EDS1 to regulate TIR-NLR-mediated plant immunity in Nicotiana benthamiana

T Qi, K Seong, DPT Thomazella… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) in plants involves a large family of nucleotide-binding
leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors, including Toll/IL-1 receptor-NLRs (TNLs) and …

CRISPR-Cas9 mediated mutagenesis of a DMR6 ortholog in tomato confers broad-spectrum disease resistance

D Paula de Toledo Thomazella, Q Brail, D Dahlbeck… - BioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
Pathogenic microbes are responsible for severe production losses in crops worldwide. The
use of disease resistant crop varieties can be a sustainable approach to meet the food …

Genome editing for plant disease resistance: applications and perspectives

K Yin, JL Qiu - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Diseases severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global food security.
Genetic improvement of plant disease resistance is essential for sustainable agriculture …

Roq1 mediates recognition of the Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas effector proteins XopQ and HopQ1

A Schultink, T Qi, A Lee, AD Steinbrenner… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Xanthomonas spp. are phytopathogenic bacteria that can cause disease on a wide variety of
plant species resulting in significant impacts on crop yields. Limited genetic resistance is …

Using Ecology, Physiology, and Genomics to Understand Host Specificity in Xanthomonas

MA Jacques, M Arlat, A Boulanger… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
How pathogens coevolve with and adapt to their hosts are critical to understanding how host
jumps and/or acquisition of novel traits can lead to new disease emergences. The …

The Xanthomonas type-III effector XopS stabilizes CaWRKY40a to regulate defense responses and stomatal immunity in pepper (Capsicum annuum)

M Raffeiner, S Üstün, T Guerra, D Spinti… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As a critical part of plant immunity, cells that are attacked by pathogens undergo rapid
transcriptional reprogramming to minimize virulence. Many bacterial phytopathogens use …

TALE-induced bHLH transcription factors that activate a pectate lyase contribute to water soaking in bacterial spot of tomato

AR Schwartz, R Morbitzer, T Lahaye… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
AvrHah1 [avirulence (avr) gene homologous to avrBs3 and hax2, no. 1] is a transcription
activator-like (TAL) effector (TALE) in Xanthomonas gardneri that induces water-soaked …

TAL effectors and the executor R genes

J Zhang, Z Yin, F White - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Transcription activator-like (TAL) effectors are bacterial type III secretion proteins that
function as transcription factors in plants during Xanthomonas/plant interactions …