Pyricularia oryzae: Lab star and field scourge

M Baudin, M Le Naour‐Vernet… - Molecular Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pyricularia oryzae (syn. Magnaporthe oryzae), is a filamentous ascomycete that causes a
major disease called blast on cereal crops, as well as on a wide variety of wild and …

NLR‐mediated antiviral immunity in plants

M Zhu, M Feng, X Tao - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Plant viruses cause substantial agricultural devastation and economic losses worldwide.
Plant nucleotide‐binding domain leucine‐rich repeat receptors (NLRs) play a pivotal role in …

The structural landscape and diversity of Pyricularia oryzae MAX effectors revisited

M Lahfa, P Barthe, K De Guillen, S Cesari… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Magnaporthe AVRs and ToxB-like (MAX) effectors constitute a family of secreted virulence
proteins in the fungus Pyricularia oryzae (syn. Magnaporthe oryzae), which causes blast …

Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor

D Gómez De La Cruz, R Zdrzałek, MJ Banfield… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Plants and animals respond to pathogen attack by mounting innate immune responses that
require intracellular nucleotide binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. These immune …

The roles of Magnaporthe oryzae avirulence effectors involved in blast resistance/susceptibility

X Liu, X Hu, Z Tu, Z Sun, P Qin, Y Liu, X Chen… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Phytopathogens represent an ongoing threat to crop production and a significant
impediment to global food security. During the infection process, these pathogens …

The blast effector Pwl2 is a virulence factor that modifies the cellular localisation of host protein HIPP43 to suppress immunity

V Were, X Yan, AJ Foster, J Sklenar, T Langner… - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae secretes a battery of effector proteins during host
infection to suppress plant immunity and promote disease. Among these effectors, the MAX …

Targeting conserved secreted effectors to control rice blast

C Zhang, Q Feng, J Ruan, GL Wang, X You… - Trends in Plant Science, 2024 - cell.com
Plant pathogens usually secrete effectors to suppress the host immune response, resulting
in effector-triggered susceptibility (ETS). Plants use nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat …

The molecular dialogue between Zymoseptoria tritici and wheat

L Meile, C Carrasco-López, C Lorrain… - Molecular Plant …, 2024 - Am Phytopath Society
Zymoseptoria tritici is a highly damaging pathogen that causes high wheat yield losses in
temperate climates. Z. tritici emerged during the domestication of wheat in the Fertile …

A resurfaced sensor NLR confers new recognition specificity to non-MAX effectors

T Zhu, X Wu, G Yuan, D Wang… - … of integrative plant …, 2025 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Replacing the HMA domain of the rice (Oryza sativa) immune receptor RGA5 with that of the
rice HMA DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 120 (HMA120) creates a designer RGA5 …

Directed evolution of a plant immune receptor for broad spectrum recognition of pathogen effectors

EY Rim, OD Garrett, AJ Howard, Y Shim, Y Li… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Rapid development of immune receptors that protect crops from emerging pathogens is a
paramount goal. We applied high throughput directed evolution to the ligand binding …