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 …

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; …

Structural biology has the potential to illuminate the evolution of pathogen effectors and their
commonalities that cannot be readily detected at the primary sequence level. Recent …

Rice blast disease, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, threatens global food security. The rice
blast pathosystem is a longstanding model system for understanding plant-microbe …

Transcriptional dynamic in response to environmental and developmental cues are
fundamental to biology, yet many mechanistic aspects are poorly understood. One such …

Rice blast is one of the most destructive diseases affecting rice production worldwide. The
development and rational use of resistant varieties has been the most effective and …

Plants deploy extracellular and intracellular immune receptors to sense and restrict
pathogen attacks. Rapidly evolving pathogen effectors play crucial roles in suppressing …

Rice production needs to be sustained in the coming decades, as the changeable climatic
conditions are becoming more conducive to disease outbreaks. The majority of rice …

Phyto-pathogenic fungi can cause huge damage to crop production. During millions of years
of coexistence, fungi have evolved diverse life-style to obtain nutrients from the host and to …

Fortunately, no fungus can cause disease on all plant species, and although some plant-
pathogenic fungi have quite a broad host range, most are highly limited in the range of plant …