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Defining the repertoire of fungal effector proteins deployed during plant infection

Yan 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

Yuqing 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…