Fascinating thread on fungi & how their effectors shape not only their plant hosts but also the rest of the microbial community in the interaction. Fungi were here first and have been competing on and in plants for 100s millions of years. Wondering if oomycetes are included? Bravo
David Cooke
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We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Evolutionary histories of effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens to mediate plant colonization remain largely elusive. While most functionally characterized effectors modulate plant immunity, ...
