Defining the repertoire of fungal effector proteins deployed during plant infection
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellYan et al. explore the changes in gene expression that take place during rice blast disease.
By Xia Yan and Nick Talbot from The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK.
Background: The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae causes a devastating disease that threatens global rice (Oryza sativa) production, destroying…
Phosphorylation of OsTGA5 by CKII switches rice defenses on against blast fungus
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellYuqing Niu and Mo Wang
Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Fujian University Key Laboratory for Plant-Microbe Interaction, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
Niu and colleagues elucidate how phosphorylation…