Why did filamentous plant pathogens evolve the potential to secrete hundreds of effectors to enable disease?

Hans Thordal-Christensen; Paul R. J. Birch; Pietro D. Spanu; Ralph Panstruga

doi:10.1111/mpp.12649

Why did filamentous plant pathogens evolve the potential to secrete hundreds of effectors to enable disease?

Hans Thordal-Christensen (Lead / Corresponding author), Paul R. J. Birch, Pietro D. Spanu, Ralph Panstruga

Plant Sciences

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	781-785
Number of pages	5
Journal	Molecular Plant Pathology
Volume	19
Issue number	4
Early online date	14 Mar 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12649
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2018

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Molecular Biology
Agronomy and Crop Science
Soil Science
Plant Science

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Undermining Effector-Targeted Susceptibility Factors to Provide Late Blight Resistance (Industrial Partnership award)
Birch, P. (Investigator)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
1/04/16 → 31/10/19
Project: Research
Aref#d: 20586. What are the Roles of Oomycete RXLR Effectors in the Establishment of Plant Disease? (joint with Warwick University). Was CO0221
Birch, P. (Investigator)
4/05/09 → 3/11/14
Project: Research

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note = "This paper was fostered by our participation in the COST Action FA1208{\textquoteleft}Pathogen-informed strategies for sustainable broad-spectrum cropresistance{\textquoteright}. H.T.-C. was supported by the Villum Foundation(VKR023502) and the Independent Research Fund Denmark/Technologyand Production (DFF-6111-00524). P.R.J.B. was supported by the Bio-technology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant BB/N009967/1. P.D.S. and R.P. were supported by the ERA-CAPS project DURESTrit(BB/M004929/1 and PA 861/13). R.P. was additionally supported bygrant PA 861/14 within the Priority Programme SPP1819, {\textquoteleft}Rapid evolu-tionary adaptation: Potential and constraints{\textquoteright}, funded by the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).",

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