Plant pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi and oomycetes cause destructive diseases in
natural habitats and agricultural settings, thereby threatening plant biodiversity and global …

Plant diseases can drastically abate the crop yields as the degree of disease outbreak is
getting severe around the world. Therefore, plant disease management has always been …

Phytophthora infestans has been a named pathogen for well over 150 years and yet it
continues to “emerge”, with thousands of articles published each year on it and the late …

Nucleotide binding and leucine-rich repeat-containing receptors (NLRs) have a critical role
in plant immunity through direct or indirect recognition of pathogen effectors. Recent studies …

Pest and pathogen losses jeopardise global food security and ever since the 19th century
Irish famine, potato late blight has exemplified this threat. The causal oomycete pathogen …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world's third-largest food crop. It severely suffers from
late blight, a devastating disease caused by Phytophthora infestans. This oomycete …

Considered responsible for one million deaths in Ireland and widespread famine in the
European continent during the 1840s, late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans …

This review takes an evolutionary view of breeding crops for durable resistance to disease.
An understanding of coevolution between hosts and parasites leads to predictors of …

Plant-pathogenic oomycetes include numerous species that are ongoing threats to
agriculture and natural ecosystems. Understanding the molecular dialogs between …

Pathogens secret a plethora of effectors into the host cell to modulate plant immunity.
Analysing the role of effectors in altering the function of their host target proteins will reveal …