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 …

Resistance Genes and their Interactions with Bacterial Blight/Leaf Streak Pathogens (Xanthomonas oryzae) in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)—an Updated Review

N Jiang, J Yan, Y Liang, Y Shi, Z He, Y Wu, Q Zeng… - Rice, 2020 - Springer
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food crop, feeding more than 50% of the world's population.
Diseases caused by bacterial, fungal, and viral pathogens constantly threaten the rice …

[HTML][HTML] What the wild things do: mechanisms of plant host manipulation by bacterial type III-secreted effector proteins

KJ Schreiber, IJ Chau-Ly, JD Lewis - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Phytopathogenic bacteria possess an arsenal of effector proteins that enable them to
subvert host recognition and manipulate the host to promote pathogen fitness. The type III …

Xa1 allelic R genes activate rice blight resistance suppressed by interfering TAL effectors

C Ji, Z Ji, B Liu, H Cheng, H Liu, S Liu, B Yang… - Plant …, 2020 - cell.com
Xanthomonas oryzae pathovar oryzae (Xoo) uses transcription activator-like effectors
(TALEs) to cause bacterial blight (BB) in rice. In turn, rice has evolved several mechanisms …

SWEET genes and TAL effectors for disease resistance in plants: Present status and future prospects

PK Gupta, HS Balyan, T Gautam - Molecular Plant Pathology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
SWEET genes encode sugar transporter proteins and often function as susceptibility (S)
genes. Consequently, the recessive alleles of these SWEET genes provide resistance. This …

TALE-induced cell death executors: an origin outside immunity?

MK Nowack, DR Holmes, T Lahaye - Trends in plant science, 2022 - cell.com
Phytopathogenic bacteria inject effector proteins into plant host cells to promote disease.
Plant resistance (R) genes encoding nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins …

Genomics-Enabled Novel Insight Into the Pathovar-Specific Population Structure of the Bacterial Leaf Streak Pathogen Xanthomonas translucens in Small Grain …

SMA Shah, M Khojasteh, Q Wang, SM Taghavi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas translucens infects a wide range of gramineous
plants with a notable impact on small grain cereals. However, genomics-informed intra …

A decade decoded: spies and hackers in the history of TAL effectors research

AL Perez-Quintero, B Szurek - Annual review of phytopathology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) from the genus Xanthomonas are proteins with
the remarkable ability to directly bind the promoters of genes in the plant host to induce their …

Functional analysis of African Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae TALomes reveals a new susceptibility gene in bacterial leaf blight of rice

TT Tran, AL Pérez-Quintero, I Wonni… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Most Xanthomonas species translocate Transcription Activator-Like (TAL) effectors into plant
cells where they function like plant transcription factors via a programmable DNA-binding …

Rice Routes of Countering Xanthomonas oryzae

Z Ji, C Wang, K Zhao - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Bacterial blight (BB) and bacterial leaf streak (BLS), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv.
oryzae and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola, respectively, are two devastating diseases in …