The fungal core effector Pep1 is conserved across smuts of dicots and monocots

Gene Loss Rather Than Gene Gain Is Associated with a Host Jump from Monocots to Dicots in the Smut Fungus Melanopsichium pennsylvanicum

(2014) Rahul Sharma et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Plant PRRs and the Activation of Innate Immune Signaling

(2014) Alberto P. Macho et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Effector Specialization in a Lineage of the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen

(2014) S. Dong et al.   SCIENCE

Alternative Cell Death Mechanisms Determine Epidermal Resistance in Incompatible Barley-UstilagoInteractions

(2013) Alexander Hof et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Compatibility in the Ustilago maydis–Maize Interaction Requires Inhibition of Host Cysteine Proteases by the Fungal Effector Pit2

(2013) André N. Mueller et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Effector-Mediated Suppression of Chitin-Triggered Immunity by Magnaporthe oryzae Is Necessary for Rice Blast Disease

(2012) T. A. Mentlak et al.   PLANT CELL

Genome Comparison of Barley and Maize Smut Fungi Reveals Targeted Loss of RNA Silencing Components and Species-Specific Presence of Transposable Elements

(2012) J. D. Laurie et al.   PLANT CELL

Homologous RXLR effectors fromHyaloperonospora arabidopsidisandPhytophthora sojaesuppress immunity in distantly related plants

(2012) Ryan G. Anderson et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Reactive oxygen species and their role in plant defence and cell wall metabolism

(2012) Jose A. O’Brien et al.   PLANTA

Dual disease resistance mediated by the immune receptor Cf-2 in tomato requires a common virulence target of a fungus and a nematode

(2012) J. L. Lozano-Torres et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large-Scale Gene Disruption in Magnaporthe oryzae Identifies MC69, a Secreted Protein Required for Infection by Monocot and Dicot Fungal Pathogens

(2012) Hiromasa Saitoh et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Ustilago maydis Effector Pep1 Suppresses Plant Immunity by Inhibition of Host Peroxidase Activity

(2012) Christoph Hemetsberger et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Ustilago maydis: Dissecting the Molecular Interface between Pathogen and Plant

(2012) Armin Djamei et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Analysis of Two in Planta Expressed LysM Effector Homologs from the Fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola Reveals Novel Functional Properties and Varying Contributions to Virulence on Wheat

(2011) R. Marshall et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Phytophthora infestans effector AVRblb2 prevents secretion of a plant immune protease at the haustorial interface

(2011) T. O. Bozkurt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Independently Evolved Virulence Effectors Converge onto Hubs in a Plant Immune System Network

(2011) M. S. Mukhtar et al.   SCIENCE

BAXINHIBITOR-1Is Required for Full Susceptibility of Barley to Powdery Mildew

(2010) Ruth Eichmann et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Promoters of the Barley Germin-Like GER4 Gene Cluster Enable Strong Transgene Expression in Response to Pathogen Attack

(2010) A. Himmelbach et al.   PLANT CELL

An Effector-Targeted Protease Contributes to Defense against Phytophthora infestans and Is under Diversifying Selection in Natural Hosts

(2010) F. Kaschani et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Tomato Cf resistance proteins mediate recognition of cognate homologous effectors from fungi pathogenic on dicots and monocots

(2010) I. Stergiopoulos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pathogenicity Determinants in Smut Fungi Revealed by Genome Comparison

(2010) J. Schirawski et al.   SCIENCE

Conserved Fungal LysM Effector Ecp6 Prevents Chitin-Triggered Immunity in Plants

(2010) R. de Jonge et al.   SCIENCE

Ustilago maydisas a Pathogen

(2009) Thomas Brefort et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Emerging Concepts in Effector Biology of Plant-Associated Organisms

(2009) Saskia A. Hogenhout et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Apoplastic effectors secreted by two unrelated eukaryotic plant pathogens target the tomato defense protease Rcr3

(2009) J. Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pep1, a Secreted Effector Protein of Ustilago maydis, Is Required for Successful Invasion of Plant Cells

(2009) Gunther Doehlemann et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Evolution of prokaryotic and eukaryotic virulence effectors

(2008) Wenbo Ma et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

A class III peroxidase specifically expressed in pathogen-attacked barley epidermis contributes to basal resistance

(2008) ANNIKA JOHRDE et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

The Cladosporium fulvum Virulence Protein Avr2 Inhibits Host Proteases Required for Basal Defense

(2008) H. P. van Esse et al.   PLANT CELL

Over-expression of the cell death regulator BAX inhibitor-1 in barley confers reduced or enhanced susceptibility to distinct fungal pathogens

(2008) Valiollah Babaeizad et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Efficient generation of transgenic barley: The way forward to modulate plant–microbe interactions

(2007) Goetz Hensel et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY