To cause rice blast disease, the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae produces biotrophic invasive
hyphae that secrete effectors at the host–pathogen interface. Effectors facilitate disease …

Although the functions of a few effector proteins produced by bacterial and oomycete plant
pathogens have been elucidated in recent years, information for the vast majority of pathogen …

… Single-channel images of EGFP or mCherry fluorescence are shown in black and white.
Pinhole settings were 1 airy unit for EGFP and 3 airy units for mCherry. The same imaging …

… Preliminary evidence suggests that, indeed, the effector protein that accumulates in BICs is
translocated into the cytoplasm of living rice cells (CH Khang and B. Valent, unpublished data…

Rapid translation of genome sequences into meaningful biological information hinges on
the integration of multiple experimental and informatics methods into a cohesive platform. …

Rapid progress in fungal genome sequencing presents many new opportunities for functional
genomic analysis of fungal biology through the systematic mutagenesis of the genes …

The avirulence (AVR) gene AVR-Pita in Magnaporthe oryzae prevents the fungus from
infecting rice cultivars containing the resistance gene Pi-ta. A survey of isolates of the M. grisea …

… This indicated that green fluorescence was specific to fluorescein, red fluorescence was
specific to PI, and autofluorescence was not being collected in either channel. Upon dual FDA/…

In planta secretion of fungal pathogen proteins, including effectors destined for the plant cell
cytoplasm, is critical for disease progression. However, little is known about the …

Pathogens utilize multiple types of effectors to modulate plant immunity. Although many
apoplastic and cytoplasmic effectors have been reported, nuclear effectors have not been well …