Plant pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi and oomycetes cause destructive diseases in
natural habitats and agricultural settings, thereby threatening plant biodiversity and global …

Many species of fungi and oomycetes are plant pathogens of great economic importance.
Over the past 7 years, the genomes of more than 30 of these filamentous plant pathogens …

Magnaporthe grisea is the most destructive pathogen of rice worldwide and the principal
model organism for elucidating the molecular basis of fungal disease of plants. Here, we …

It is accepted that most fungal avirulence genes encode virulence factors that are called
effectors. Most fungal effectors are secreted, cysteine-rich proteins, and a role in virulence …

▪ Abstract The blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea causes a serious disease on a wide variety
of grasses including rice, wheat, and barley. Rice blast is the most serious disease of …

Rice is the staple diet of more than three billion people. Yields must double over the next 40
years if we are to sustain the nutritional needs of the ever-expanding global population …

The rice blast pathosystem has been the subject of intense interest in part because of the
importance of the disease to world agriculture, but also because both Magnaporthe oryzae …

Background Macrophomina phaseolina is one of the most destructive necrotrophic fungal
pathogens that infect more than 500 plant species throughout the world. It can grow rapidly …

The pioneering research of Harold Flor on flax and the flax rust fungus culminated in his
gene‐for‐gene hypothesis. It took nearly 50 years before the first fungal avirulence (Avr) …

A 12 kDa cysteine‐rich protein is secreted by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici during
colonization of tomato xylem vessels. Peptide sequences obtained with mass spectrometry …