Co-option of developmentally regulated plant SWEET transporters for pathogen nutrition and abiotic stress tolerance

The role of sugar signaling in plant defense responses against fungal pathogens

(2014) Iwona Morkunas et al.   ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM

An improved genome release (version Mt4.0) for the model legume Medicago truncatula

(2014) Haibao Tang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of SWEET transporters

(2014) Jing Wang et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Principles and applications of TAL effectors for plant physiology and metabolism

(2014) Adam J Bogdanove   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

The SWEET family of sugar transporters in grapevine: VvSWEET4 is involved in the interaction with Botrytis cinerea

(2014) Julie Chong et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

RiceMtN3/saliva/SWEETgene family: Evolution, expression profiling, and sugar transport

(2014) Meng Yuan et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Xanthomonas axonopodis Virulence Is Promoted by a Transcription Activator-Like Effector–Mediated Induction of a SWEET Sugar Transporter in Cassava

(2014) Megan Cohn et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Structures of bacterial homologues of SWEET transporters in two distinct conformations

(2014) Yan Xu et al.   NATURE

Nectar secretion requires sucrose phosphate synthases and the sugar transporter SWEET9

(2014) I Winnie Lin et al.   NATURE

SWEET17, a Facilitative Transporter, Mediates Fructose Transport across the Tonoplast of Arabidopsis Roots and Leaves

(2014) W.-J. Guo et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Gene expression in mycorrhizal orchid protocorms suggests a friendly plant–fungus relationship

(2014) Silvia Perotto et al.   PLANTA

Overexpression of OsSWEET5 in Rice Causes Growth Retardation and Precocious Senescence

(2014) Yong Zhou et al.   PLoS One

Lateral organ boundaries 1 is a disease susceptibility gene for citrus bacterial canker disease

(2014) Y. Hu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Leaf Fructose Content Is Controlled by the Vacuolar Transporter SWEET17 in Arabidopsis

(2013) Fabien Chardon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Designer TAL Effectors Induce Disease Susceptibility and Resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. Oryzae in Rice

(2013) Ting Li et al.   Molecular Plant

Using membrane transporters to improve crops for sustainable food production

(2013) Julian I. Schroeder et al.   NATURE

SWEET sugar transporters for phloem transport and pathogen nutrition

(2013) Li-Qing Chen   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Five phylogenetically close riceSWEETgenes confer TAL effector-mediated susceptibility toXanthomonas oryzaepv.oryzae

(2013) Jana Streubel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Overexpression of the Vacuolar Sugar Carrier AtSWEET16 Modifies Germination, Growth, and Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis

(2013) P. A. W. Klemens et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Functional role of oligomerization for bacterial and plant SWEET sugar transporter family

(2013) Y. H. Xuan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Arabidopsis RPG1 is important for primexine deposition and functions redundantly with RPG2 for plant fertility at the late reproductive stage

(2013) Ming-Xi Sun et al.   Plant Reproduction

High-efficiency TALEN-based gene editing produces disease-resistant rice

(2012) Ting Li et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Transcription activator-like (TAL) effectors targetingOsSWEETgenes enhance virulence on diverse rice (Oryza sativa) varieties when expressed individually in a TAL effector-deficient strain ofXanthomonas oryzae

(2012) Valérie Verdier et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Gene silencing using the recessive rice bacterial blight resistance gene xa13 as a new paradigm in plant breeding

(2012) Changyan Li et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Colonization of Rice Leaf Blades by an African Strain of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Depends on a New TAL Effector That Induces the Rice Nodulin-3 Os11N3 Gene

(2011) Yanhua Yu et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

A paralog of the MtN3/saliva family recessively confers race-specific resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae in rice

(2011) QINSONG LIU et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Climate change, plant diseases and food security: an overview

(2011) S. Chakraborty et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Sucrose Efflux Mediated by SWEET Proteins as a Key Step for Phloem Transport

(2011) L.-Q. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Modulation of host nuclear ploidy: a common plant biotroph mechanism

(2010) Mary C Wildermuth   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Cell biology: Raiding the sweet shop

(2010) Nicholas J. Talbot   NATURE

Sugar transporters for intercellular exchange and nutrition of pathogens

(2010) Li-Qing Chen et al.   NATURE

Promoter elements of rice susceptibility genes are bound and activated by specific TAL effectors from the bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

(2010) Patrick Römer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Rice xa13 Recessive Resistance to Bacterial Blight Is Defeated by Induction of the Disease Susceptibility Gene Os-11N3

(2010) G. Antony et al.   PLANT CELL

An Arabidopsis senescence-associated protein SAG29 regulates cell viability under high salinity

(2010) Pil Joon Seo et al.   PLANTA

The Medicago truncatula gene expression atlas web server

(2009) Ji He et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Laser microdissection of Arabidopsis cells at the powdery mildew infection site reveals site-specific processes and regulators

(2009) D. Chandran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A gene expression atlas of the model legumeMedicago truncatula

(2008) Vagner A. Benedito et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

RUPTURED POLLEN GRAIN1, a Member of the MtN3/saliva Gene Family, Is Crucial for Exine Pattern Formation and Cell Integrity of Microspores in Arabidopsis

(2008) Y.-F. Guan et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY