Pythium is a genus of parasitic oomycetes which target plants and both nonvertebrate and
vertebrate animals, including fish and mammalian species. However, several Pythium spp …

Nuclear effector proteins released by bacteria, oomycete, nematode, and fungi burden the
global environment and crop yield. Microbial effectors are key weapons in the evolutionary …

Background Verticillium dahliae is a fungal pathogen that causes a vascular wilt on many
economically important crops. Common fungal extracellular membrane (CFEM) domain …

Microbe-secreted proteins could alter plant defense systems, but yeast-secreted proteins
and their impact on plant disease resistance remains uninvestigated. As our team had …

One of the causative agents of pokkah boeng disease (PBD), which affects sugarcane crops
globally, is the fungus Fusarium sacchari. These fungal infections reduce sugar quality and …

Fungal phytopathogens pose a serious threat to global crop production. Only a handful of
strategies are available to combat these fungal infections, and the increasing incidence of …

The root endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica plays an important role in increasing
abiotic stress tolerance of its host plants. To explore the impact of P. indica on freezing …

Fungal pathogens deploy a barrage of secreted effectors to subvert host immunity, often by
evading, disrupting, or altering key components of transcription, defense signaling, and …

Biotic and abiotic interactions shape natural microbial communities. The mechanisms
behind microbe–microbe interactions, particularly those protein based, are not well …

Fungal plant-pathogens promote infection of their hosts through the release of 'effectors'—a
broad class of cytotoxic or virulence-promoting molecules. Effectors may be recognised by …