Understanding the plant immune system is crucial for using genetics to protect crops from
diseases. Plants resist pathogens via a two-tiered innate immune detection-and-response …

One of most important challenges in plant breeding is improving resistance to the plethora of
pathogens that threaten our crops. The ever-growing world population, changing pathogen …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

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

Plant pathogenic oomycetes secrete a diverse repertoire of effector proteins that modulate
host innate immunity and enable parasitic infection. Understanding how effectors evolve …

Some of the most devastating oomycete pathogens deploy effector proteins, with the
signature amino acid motif RXLR, that enter plant cells to promote virulence. Research on …

Many destructive diseases of plants and animals are caused by oomycetes, a group of
eukaryotic pathogens important to agricultural, ornamental, and natural ecosystems …

The Oomycota include many economically significant microbial pathogens of crop species.
Understanding the mechanisms by which oomycetes infect plants and identifying methods to …

An understanding of the cell biology underlying the burgeoning molecular genetic and
genomic knowledge of oomycete pathogenicity is essential to gain the full context of how …

Oomycete pathogens cause diverse plant diseases. To successfully colonize their hosts,
they deliver a suite of effector proteins that can attenuate plant defenses. In the oomycete …