Trafficking arms: oomycete effectors enter host plant cells

PRJ Birch, AP Rehmany, L Pritchard, S Kamoun… - Trends in …, 2006 - cell.com
Oomycetes cause devastating plant diseases of global importance, yet little is known about
the molecular basis of their pathogenicity. Recently, the first oomycete effector genes with …

Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis as a Pathogen Model

ME Coates, JL Beynon - Annual review of phytopathology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis, a downy mildew pathogen of the model plant Arabidopsis,
has been very useful in the understanding of the relationship between oomycetes and their …

Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

BM Tyler, S Tripathy, X Zhang, P Dehal, RHY Jiang… - Science, 2006 - science.org
Draft genome sequences have been determined for the soybean pathogen Phytophthora
sojae and the sudden oak death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. Oömycetes such as …

[HTML][HTML] Improving crop disease resistance: lessons from research on Arabidopsis and tomato

SJM Piquerez, SE Harvey, JL Beynon… - Frontiers in plant …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
One of the great challenges for food security in the 21st century is to improve yield stability
through the development of disease-resistant crops. Crop research is often hindered by the …

Host-Parasite Coevolutionary Conflict Between Arabidopsis and Downy Mildew

RL Allen, PD Bittner-Eddy, LJ Grenville-Briggs… - Science, 2004 - science.org
Plants are constantly exposed to attack by an array of diverse pathogens but lack a
somatically adaptive immune system. In spite of this, natural plant populations do not often …

An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm

MR Armstrong, SC Whisson… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The oomycete Phytophthora infestans causes late blight, the potato disease that precipitated
the Irish famines in 1846 and 1847. It represents a reemerging threat to potato production …

Differential Recognition of Highly Divergent Downy Mildew Avirulence Gene Alleles by RPP1 Resistance Genes from Two Arabidopsis Lines

AP Rehmany, A Gordon, LE Rose, RL Allen… - The Plant …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The perception of downy mildew avirulence (Arabidopsis thaliana Recognized [ATR]) gene
products by matching Arabidopsis thaliana resistance (Recognition of Peronospora …

Three Genes of the Arabidopsis RPP1 Complex Resistance Locus Recognize Distinct Peronospora parasitica Avirulence Determinants

MA Botella, JE Parker, LN Frost, PD Bittner-Eddy… - The Plant …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Plant resistance (R) genes have evolved specific recognition capabilities in defense against
pathogens. The evolution of R gene function and maintenance of R gene diversity within a …

RPP13 is a simple locus in Arabidopsis thaliana for alleles that specify downy mildew resistance to different avirulence determinants in Peronospora parasitica

PD Bittner‐Eddy, IR Crute, EB Holub… - The Plant …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Disease resistance (R) genes are found in plants as either simple (single allelic series) loci,
or more frequently as complex loci of tandemly repeated genes. These different loci are …

The Maintenance of Extreme Amino Acid Diversity at the Disease Resistance Gene, RPP13, in Arabidopsis thaliana

LE Rose, PD Bittner-Eddy, CH Langley, EB Holub… - Genetics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We have used the naturally occurring plant-parasite system of Arabidopsis thaliana and its
common parasite Peronospora parasitica (downy mildew) to study the evolution of …