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Pearls: Plant Pathogens

Published June 13, 2019

PLOS Pathogens presents an Open Access compendium of the "lessons-that-last." This section, founded by Dr. Hiten Madhani and now led by Dr. Joseph Heitman and a team of twelve Pearls Editors, is a living collection of short educational and highly useful articles that address topics of relevance and importance within the wide-ranging field of pathogens research, with insights for trainees and scientists at all career stages.

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10.1371/journal.ppat.1007740

PLOS Pathogens Microbiota-mediated disease resistance in plants
June 13, 2019 Nathan Vannier, Matthew Agler, Stéphane Hacquard
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1007639

PLOS Pathogens Pepper mild mottle virus: Agricultural menace turned effective tool for microbial water quality monitoring and assessing (waste)water treatment technologies
April 18, 2019 Erin M. Symonds, Karyna Rosario, Mya Breitbart
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van den Hoogen J, Govers F (2018)

PLOS Pathogens GPCR-bigrams: Enigmatic signaling components in oomycetes
July 5, 2018 Johan van den Hoogen, Francine Govers
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006992

PLOS Pathogens Effectors of plant-colonizing fungi and beyond
June 7, 2018 Simon Uhse, Armin Djamei
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006875

PLOS Pathogens Mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling in plant pathogenic fungi
March 15, 2018 Cong Jiang, Xue Zhang, Huiquan Liu, Jin-Rong Xu
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006761

PLOS Pathogens Tricked or trapped—Two decoy mechanisms in host–pathogen interactions
February 15, 2018 Judith K. Paulus, Renier A. L. van der Hoorn
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006791

PLOS Pathogens “Cyst-ained” research into Heterodera parasitism
February 1, 2018 Parijat Juvale, Thomas Baum
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006731

PLOS Pathogens Habits of a highly successful cereal killer, Striga
January 11, 2018 Steven Runo, Eric K. Kuria
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006468

PLOS Pathogens Genetic and epigenetic engines of diversity in pathogenic microbes
September 14, 2017 R. Blake Billmyre, Joseph Heitman
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Wang Y. et al. (2017)

PLOS Pathogens L-type lectin receptor kinases: New forces in plant immunity
August 17, 2017 Yan Wang, Klaas Bouwmeester
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006381

PLOS Pathogens Ash dieback epidemic in Europe: How can molecular technologies help?
July 20, 2017 J. Allan Downie
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006380

PLOS Pathogens An overview of genetic rust resistance: From broad to specific mechanisms
July 13, 2017 Sambasivam Periyannan, Ricky J. Milne, Melania Figueroa, Evans S. Lagudah, Peter N. Dodds
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006334

PLOS Pathogens Fungal manipulation of hormone-regulated plant defense
June 15, 2017 Rajesh N. Patkar, Naweed I. Naqvi
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006306

PLOS Pathogens Bacterial outer membrane vesicles at the plant–pathogen interface
June 1, 2017 Leron Katsir, Ofir Bahar
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006297

PLOS Pathogens Targeting pathogen sterols: Defence and counterdefence?
May 18, 2017 Kemal Kazan, Donald M. Gardiner
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006287

PLOS Pathogens New opportunities and challenges to engineer disease resistance in cassava, a staple food of African small-holder farmers
May 11, 2017 Rebecca S. Bart, Nigel J. Taylor
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006028

PLOS Pathogens Microbial Partnerships of Pathogenic Oomycetes
January 26, 2017 Marie Larousse, Eric Galiana
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005978

PLOS Pathogens Molecular Parasitic Plant–Host Interactions
December 15, 2016 Simon B. Saucet, Ken Shirasu
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005941

PLOS Pathogens Protein ADP-Ribosylation Takes Control in Plant–Bacterium Interactions
December 1, 2016 Baomin Feng, Chenglong Liu, Libo Shan, Ping He
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005940

PLOS Pathogens Postharvest Disease of Banana Caused by Fusarium musae: A Public Health Concern?
November 17, 2016 David Triest, Marijke Hendrickx
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005920

PLOS Pathogens Chromatin Biology Impacts Adaptive Evolution of Filamentous Plant Pathogens
November 3, 2016 Michael Seidl, David Cook, Bart Thomma
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005704

PLOS Pathogens Nudix Effectors: A Common Weapon in the Arsenal of Plant Pathogens
August 11, 2016 Suomeng Dong, Yuanchao Wang
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005631

PLOS Pathogens Escaping Host Immunity: New Tricks for Plant Pathogens
July 7, 2016 Ren Na, Mark Gijzen
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005464

PLOS Pathogens Fusarium: Molecular Diversity and Intrinsic Drug Resistance
April 7, 2016 Abdullah Al-Hatmi, Jacques Meis, G. Sybren de Hoog
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005452

PLOS Pathogens Cooperation and Conflict in the Plant Immune System
March 17, 2016 Eunyoung Chae, Diep Tran, Detlef Weigel
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005275

PLOS Pathogens Peptidoglycan Perception in Plants
December 17, 2015 Andrea A. Gust
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005197

PLOS Pathogens Worse Comes to Worst: Bananas and Panama Disease—When Plant and Pathogen Clones Meet
November 18, 2015 Nadia Ordonez, Michael F. Seidl, Cees Waalwijk, André Drenth, Andrzej Kilian, Bart P. H. J. Thomma, Randy C. Ploetz, Gert H. J. Kema
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005130

PLOS Pathogens Time for Chocolate: Current Understanding and New Perspectives on Cacao Witches’ Broom Disease Research
October 22, 2015 Paulo Teixeira, Daniela Thomazella, Gonçalo Pereira
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004805

PLOS Pathogens The Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Evolution of the Oomycetes
May 27, 2015 Fiona Savory, Guy Leonard, Thomas A. Richards
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004806

PLOS Pathogens Advances and Challenges in Computational Prediction of Effectors from Plant Pathogenic Fungi
May 27, 2015 Jana Sperschneider, Peter N. Dodds, Donald M. Gardiner, John M. Manners, Karam B. Singh, Jennifer M. Taylor
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004608

PLOS Pathogens Dimorphism in Fungal Pathogens of Mammals, Plants, and Insects
February 12, 2015 Gregory Gauthier
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004255

PLOS Pathogens Hell’s BELs: Bacterial E3 Ligases That Exploit the Eukaryotic Ubiquitin Machinery
August 14, 2014 Jon Huibregtse, John Rohde
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003859

PLOS Pathogens Human and Plant Fungal Pathogens: The Role of Secondary Metabolites
January 30, 2014 Daniel Scharf, Thorsten Heinekamp, Axel Brakhage
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004329

PLOS Pathogens The Ins and Outs of Rust Haustoria
September 11, 2014 Diana Garnica, Adnane nemri, Narayana Upadhyaya, John Rathjen, Peter Dodds
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PLOS Pathogens Comparative Genomics of Plant Fungal Pathogens: The Ustilago–Sporisorium Paradigm
July 3, 2014 Theresa Wollenberg, Jan Schirawski
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004028

PLOS Pathogens Mining Herbaria for Plant Pathogen Genomes: Back to the Future
April 24, 2014 Kentaro Yoshida, Hernán Burbano, Johannes Krause, Marco Thines, Detlef Weigel, Sophien Kamoun
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003826

PLOS Pathogens Effectors and Effector Delivery in Magnaporthe oryzae
January 2, 2014 Shijie Zhang, Jin-Rong Xu
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003769

PLOS Pathogens LysM Effectors: Secreted Proteins Supporting Fungal Life
December 12, 2013 Anja Kombrink, Bart Thomma
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003740

PLOS Pathogens Disease to Dirt: The Biology of Microbial Amyloids
November 21, 2013 David Hufnagel, Çagla Tükel, Matthew Chapman
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003633

PLOS Pathogens Emergence of Azole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus Strains due to Agricultural Azole Use Creates an Increasing Threat to Human Health
October 24, 2013 Anuradha Chowdhary, Shallu Kathuria, Jianping Xu, Jacques Meis
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003617

PLOS Pathogens RNA Biology in Fungal Phytopathogens
October 17, 2013 Vera Göhre, Carl Haag, Michael Feldbrügge
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003542

PLOS Pathogens Death Be Not Proud—Cell Death Control in Plant Fungal Interactions
September 12, 2013 Martin Dickman, Paul de Figueiredo
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003517

PLOS Pathogens Fungi Infecting Plants and Animals: Killers, Non-Killers, and Cell Death
August 29, 2013 Amir Sharon, Neta Shlezinger
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003447

PLOS Pathogens Relevance of Trehalose in Pathogenicity: Some General Rules, Yet Many Exceptions
August 15, 2013 Hélène Tournu, Alessandro Fiori, Patrick Van Dijck
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003304

PLOS Pathogens Plant Virus Ecology
May 23, 2013 Marilyn J. Roossinck
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003080

PLOS Pathogens Innate Sensing of Chitin and Chitosan
January 10, 2013 Chelsea Bueter, Charles Specht, Stuart Levitz
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003028

PLOS Pathogens Parallels in Intercellular Communication in Oomycete and Fungal Pathogens of Plants and Humans
December 13, 2012 Soo Chan Lee, Jean Ristaino, Joseph Heitman
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003026

PLOS Pathogens The Role of Auxin-Cytokinin Antagonism in Plant-Pathogen Interactions
November 29, 2012 Muhammad Naseem, Thomas Dandekar
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002955

PLOS Pathogens Ustilago maydis: Dissecting the Molecular Interface between Pathogen and Plant
November 1, 2012 Regine Kahmann, Armin Djamei
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002893

PLOS Pathogens A Population Genomics Perspective on the Emergence and Adaptation of New Plant Pathogens in Agro-Ecosystems
September 27, 2012 Eva Stukenbrock, Thomas Bataillon
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002869

PLOS Pathogens Cryptococcus and Beyond—Inositol Utilization and Its Implications for the Emergence of Fungal Virulence
September 13, 2012 Chaoyang Xue
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PLOS Pathogens The Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: Origin and Evolution of a Beneficial Plant Infection
April 19, 2012 Nicolas Corradi, Paola Bonfante
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002400

PLOS Pathogens Sequence Divergent RXLR Effectors Share a Structural Fold Conserved across Plant Pathogenic Oomycete Species
January 12, 2012 Joe Win, Ksenia Krasileva, Sophien Kamoun, Ken Shirasu, Brian Staskawicz, Mark Banfield
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002324

PLOS Pathogens Comparative Pathobiology of Fungal Pathogens of Plants and Animals
December 15, 2011 Martin Dickman, Paul de Figueiredo
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002096

PLOS Pathogens Impact of Endofungal Bacteria on Infection Biology, Food Safety, and Drug Development
June 30, 2011 Gerald Lackner, Christian Hertweck
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1000470

PLOS Pathogens The Photobiology of Microbial Pathogenesis
November 26, 2009 Alexander Idnurm, Sean Crosson

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