Background Crops are constantly attacked by various pathogens. These pathogenic
microorganisms, such as fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, and nematodes, threaten …

The novel classes of plant pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins identified during the last
decade also include novel peptide families. This review specifically focuses on these …

Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is one of the most important fruit crop worldwide. Commercial
cultivars are greatly affected by a large number of pathogenic microorganisms that cause …

Nonspecific lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) are small, cysteine‐rich proteins that play
numerous functional roles in plant growth and development, including cutin wax formation …

Background The complex and dynamic changes during grape berry development have
been studied in Vitis vinifera, but little is known about these processes in other Vitis species …

Various crop plants have been domesticated, after careful selection from innumerable wild
plant species over several millennia, because of their potential for higher yield and better …

Plant lipids are essential cell constituents with many structural, storage, signaling, and
defensive functions. During plant–pathogen interactions, lipids play parts in both the …

Grapevine downy mildew, caused by the biotrophic oomycete Plasmopara viticola, is one of
the most important diseases in modern viticulture. The search for sustainable disease …

Lasiodiplodia theobromae is one of the most aggressive agents of the grapevine trunk
disease Botryosphaeria dieback. Through a dual RNA-sequencing approach, this study …

Plant viruses rely on host factors for successful infection. Non‐specific lipid transfer proteins
(nsLTPs) play critical roles in plant− pathogen interactions; however, their functions and …