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The Genomics of Obligate (and Nonobligate) Biotrophs by SPANU, Pietro D

“…Biotrophy is a pervasive trait that evolved independently in plant pathogenic fungi and oomycetes. Comparative genomics of the first sequenced biotrophic…”
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Editorial: Biotrophic Plant-Microbe Interactions by Spanu, Pietro D, Panstruga, Ralph

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Signatures of host specialization and a recent transposable element burst in the dynamic one-speed genome of the fungal barley powdery mildew pathogen by Frantzeskakis, Lamprinos, Kracher, Barbara, Kusch, Stefan, Yoshikawa-Maekawa, Makoto, Bauer, Saskia, Pedersen, Carsten, Spanu, Pietro D, Maekawa, Takaki, Schulze-Lefert, Paul, Panstruga, Ralph

“…Powdery mildews are biotrophic pathogenic fungi infecting a number of economically important plants. The grass powdery mildew, Blumeria graminis, has become a…”
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RNA–protein interactions in plant disease: hackers at the dinner table by Spanu, Pietro D.

“…Plants are the source of most of our food, whether directly or as feed for the animals we eat. Our dinner table is a trophic level we share with the microbes…”
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Cereal powdery mildew effectors: a complex toolbox for an obligate pathogen by Bourras, Salim, Praz, Coraline R, Spanu, Pietro D, Keller, Beat

“…[Display omitted] •Cereal powdery mildews have evolved a large repertoire of candidate effector proteins.•These effectors are encoded within size variable and…”
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The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology by DEAN, RALPH, VAN KAN, JAN A. L., PRETORIUS, ZACHARIAS A., HAMMOND-KOSACK, KIM E., DI PIETRO, ANTONIO, SPANU, PIETRO D., RUDD, JASON J., DICKMAN, MARTY, KAHMANN, REGINE, ELLIS, JEFF, FOSTER, GARY D.

“…SUMMARY The aim of this review was to survey all fungal pathologists with an association with the journal Molecular Plant Pathology and ask them to nominate…”
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Rumble in the Effector Jungle: Candidate Effector Proteins in Interactions of Plants with Powdery Mildew and Rust Fungi by Barsoum, Mirna, Sabelleck, Björn, D. Spanu, Pietro, Panstruga, Ralph

“…Rust and powdery mildew fungi are widespread obligate biotrophic phytopathogens. They colonize a broad range monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous host plant…”
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The fungal ribonuclease-like effector protein CSEP0064/BEC1054 represses plant immunity and interferes with degradation of host ribosomal RNA by Pennington, Helen G, Jones, Rhian, Kwon, Seomun, Bonciani, Giulia, Thieron, Hannah, Chandler, Thomas, Luong, Peggy, Morgan, Sian Natasha, Przydacz, Michal, Bozkurt, Tolga, Bowden, Sarah, Craze, Melanie, Wallington, Emma J, Garnett, James, Kwaaitaal, Mark, Panstruga, Ralph, Cota, Ernesto, Spanu, Pietro D

“…The biotrophic fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis causes the powdery mildew disease of cereals and grasses. We present the first crystal structure of a B…”
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Structure and evolution of barley powdery mildew effector candidates by Pedersen, Carsten, Ver Loren van Themaat, Emiel, McGuffin, Liam J, Abbott, James C, Burgis, Timothy A, Barton, Geraint, Bindschedler, Laurence V, Lu, Xunli, Maekawa, Takaki, Wessling, Ralf, Cramer, Rainer, Thordal-Christensen, Hans, Panstruga, Ralph, Spanu, Pietro D

“…Protein effectors of pathogenicity are instrumental in modulating host immunity and disease resistance. The powdery mildew pathogen of grasses Blumeria…”
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The wheat powdery mildew genome shows the unique evolution of an obligate biotroph by Wicker, Thomas, Oberhaensli, Simone, Parlange, Francis, Buchmann, Jan P, Shatalina, Margarita, Roffler, Stefan, Ben-David, Roi, Doležel, Jaroslav, Šimková, Hana, Schulze-Lefert, Paul, Spanu, Pietro D, Bruggmann, Rémy, Amselem, Joelle, Quesneville, Hadi, Ver Loren van Themaat, Emiel, Paape, Timothy, Shimizu, Kentaro K, Keller, Beat

“…Thomas Wicker and colleagues report the whole-genome sequencing of four wheat powdery mildew ( Blumeria graminis forma specialis tritici ) isolates from…”
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Host-Induced Gene Silencing in Barley Powdery Mildew Reveals a Class of Ribonuclease-Like Effectors by PLIEGO, Clara, NOWARA, Daniela, SCHWEIZER, Patrick, BINDSCHEDLER, Laurence V, SPANU, Pietro D, BONCIANI, Giulia, GHEORGHE, Dana M, RUO XU, SURANA, Priyanka, WHIGHAM, Ehren, NETTLETON, Dan, BOGDANOVE, Adam J, WISE, Roger P

“…Obligate biotrophic pathogens of plants must circumvent or counteract defenses to guarantee accommodation inside the host. To do so, they secrete a variety of…”
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Effectors involved in fungal–fungal interaction lead to a rare phenomenon of hyperbiotrophy in the tritrophic system biocontrol agent–powdery mildew–plant by Laur, Joan, Ramakrishnan, Gowsica Bojarajan, Labbé, Caroline, Lefebvre, François, Spanu, Pietro D., Bélanger, Richard R.

“…Tritrophic interactions involving a biocontrol agent, a pathogen and a plant have been analyzed predominantly from the perspective of the biocontrol agent. We…”
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Salicylic Acid-Mediated Disturbance Increases Bacterial Diversity in the Phyllosphere but Is Overcome by a Dominant Core Community by Vincent, Stacey A, Ebertz, Andreas, Spanu, Pietro D, Devlin, Paul F

“…Plant microbiomes and immune responses have coevolved through history, and this applies just as much to the phyllosphere microbiome and defense phytohormone…”
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De novo Analysis of the Epiphytic Transcriptome of the Cucurbit Powdery Mildew Fungus Podosphaera xanthii and Identification of Candidate Secreted Effector Proteins by Vela-Corcía, David, Bautista, Rocío, de Vicente, Antonio, Spanu, Pietro D, Pérez-García, Alejandro

“…The cucurbit powdery mildew fungus Podosphaera xanthii is a major limiting factor for cucurbit production worldwide. Despite the fungus's agronomic and…”
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Powdery mildew genomes reloaded by Panstruga, Ralph, Spanu, Pietro D.

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Powdery mildew genomes in the crosshairs by Spanu, Pietro D., Panstruga, Ralph

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Proteogenomics and in silico structural and functional annotation of the barley powdery mildew Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei by Bindschedler, Laurence V., McGuffin, Liam J., Burgis, Timothy A., Spanu, Pietro D., Cramer, Rainer

“…Blumeria graminis is an economically important obligate plant-pathogenic fungus, whose entire genome was recently sequenced and manually annotated using ab…”
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Evolution of the EKA family of powdery mildew avirulence-effector genes from the ORF 1 of a LINE retrotransposon by Amselem, Joelle, Vigouroux, Marielle, Oberhaensli, Simone, Brown, James K M, Bindschedler, Laurence V, Skamnioti, Pari, Wicker, Thomas, Spanu, Pietro D, Quesneville, Hadi, Sacristán, Soledad

“…The Avrk1 and Avra10 avirulence (AVR) genes encode effectors that increase the pathogenicity of the fungus Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei (Bgh), the powdery…”
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Broadly Conserved Fungal Effector BEC1019 Suppresses Host Cell Death and Enhances Pathogen Virulence in Powdery Mildew of Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) by Whigham, Ehren, Qi, Shan, Mistry, Divya, Surana, Priyanka, Xu, Ruo, Fuerst, Gregory, Pliego, Clara, Bindschedler, Laurence V, Spanu, Pietro D, Dickerson, Julie A, Innes, Roger W, Nettleton, Dan, Bogdanove, Adam J, Wise, Roger P

“…The interaction of barley, Hordeum vulgare L., with the powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei is a well-developed model to investigate…”
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Cereal immunity against powdery mildews targets RNase‐Like Proteins associated with Haustoria (RALPH) effectors evolved from a common ancestral gene by Spanu, Pietro D.

“…This article is a Commentary on Praz et al., 213: 1301–1314…”
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