Virtually all plants and animals, including humans, are home to symbiotic microorganisms.
Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects on the host …

Agricultural ecosystems are composed of genetically depauperate populations of crop
plants grown at a high density and over large spatial scales, with the regional composition of …

BACKGROUND Despite ongoing advances in biomedicine, infectious diseases remain a
major threat to human health, economic sustainability, and wildlife conservation. This is in …

The pathological importance of mixed viral infections in plants might be underestimated
except for a few well-characterized synergistic combinations in certain crops. Considering …

Studies of plant–pathogen interactions have historically focused on simple models of
infection involving single host-single disease systems. However, plant infections often …

Five Aspergillus sections have members that are established agricultural pests and
producers of different metabolites, threatening global food safety. Most of these pathogenic …

Bacterial virulence is highly dynamic and context-dependent. For this reason, it is
challenging to predict how molecular changes affect the growth of a pathogen in a host and …

Metagenomic sequencing is a powerful tool for examining the diversity and complexity of
microbial communities. Most widely used tools for taxonomic profiling of metagenomic …

About half of all bacteria carry genes for CRISPR–Cas adaptive immune systems, which
provide immunological memory by inserting short DNA sequences from phage and other …

Recent methodological advances have uncovered tremendous microbial diversity
cohabiting in the same host plant, and many of these microbes cause disease. In this review …