Plant diseases caused by necrotrophic fungal pathogens result in large economic losses in
field crop production worldwide. Effectors are important players of plant-pathogen interaction …

In plants, growth and defence are controlled by many molecular pathways that are
antagonistic to one another. This results in a 'growth‐defence trade‐off', where plants …

Motivation Genes involved in coordinated biological pathways, including metabolism, drug
resistance and virulence, are often collocalized as gene clusters. Identifying homologous …

Pathogens secrete effector proteins to subvert host physiology and cause disease. Effectors
are engaged in a molecular arms race with the host resulting in conflicting evolutionary …

Covering: 2000 to up to 2023 α, β-Dehydroamino acids (dhAAs) are unsaturated
nonproteinogenic amino acids found in a wide array of naturally occurring peptidyl …

Peptide natural products are important lead structures for human drugs and many
nonribosomal peptides possess antibiotic activity. This makes them interesting targets for …

Pathogenic fungi use diverse infection strategies to obtain nutrients from plants. Biotrophic
fungi feed only on living plant tissue, whereas necrotrophic fungi kill host cells to extract …

Background Scab, caused by the biotrophic fungus Venturia inaequalis, is the most
economically important disease of apples worldwide. During infection, V. inaequalis …

Covering up to June 2021 Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified
peptides (RiPPs) from fungi are an underexplored class of natural products, despite their …

Plants counter disease with an array of responses to styme pathogen ingress. In contrast to
this cacophony, plant pathogens orchestrate a finely tuned repertoire of virulence …