Unconventional protein secretion (UCPS) of leaderless proteins bypasses the conventional
endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-Golgi route. The proportion of UCPS in the secretome varies …

Highlights•Plants alter the root microbiomes of neighboring plants.•Plants and root
microbiota reciprocally affect each other's fitness.•Co-occurrence analysis and synthetic …

Tuberculosis (TB) has surpassed HIV as the leading infectious disease killer worldwide
since 2014. The main pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), contains~ 4,000 genes …

SAP54, an effector protein secreted by phytoplasmas has been reported to induce phyllody.
S54LP of SP (SAP54 Like Protein of Sesame Phyllody), a SAP54 ortholog from phyllody and …

Banana Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 (Foc‐TR4) is a highly destructive
pathogen that infects nearly all major banana cultivars and has a tendency to spread further …

Carbohydrates are biological blocks participating in diverse and crucial processes both at
cellular and organism levels. They protect individual cells, establish intracellular …

Microbes are abundant in nature and often highly adapted to local conditions. While great
progress has been made in understanding the ecological factors driving their distribution in …

Although plants and their natural enemies may coevolve for prolonged periods, little is
known about how long individual plant defensive genes are involved in the coevolutionary …

A phyloprofile of Frankia genomes was carried out to identify those genes present in
symbiotic strains of clusters 1, 1c, 2 and 3 and absent in non-infective strains of cluster 4. At …

Mycobacterium is an interesting genus which not only includes intimidating pathogens,
associated with severe devastations globally, but also comprises of non-pathogenic eco …