Pseudoperonospora humuli is an obligate biotrophic oomycete that causes downy mildew, one of the most devastating diseases of cultivated hop.

VMA inhibits DON biosynthesis by reducing the interaction between FgNTH and FgPK, and synergizes with demethylation inhibitor fungicides against Fusarium graminearum via the interaction between FgNTH with FgCYP51B.

Arabidopsis BSK7 and BSK8 are membrane-localized receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases regulating a subset of PAMP-triggered immunity responses that counteract Pseudomonas syringae and Botrytis cinerea infection.

The expression of the gene REP9-1, which resides in an active Class II transposon, negatively regulates the rate of pycnidia appearance in planta of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici.

HSP17.4 can activate the salicylic acid pathway and synergistically suppress the jasmonic acid signal, contributing to the resistance of strawberry plants to Colletotrichum gloeosporioides.

The root-specific sugar beet nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat domain protein Rz2 recognizes TGB1 of the soilborne pathogen beet necrotic yellow vein virus and results in cell death when transiently expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana.

A novel genetic transformation system was developed to easily knock out a highly GC-rich gene (74.7% GC) from Burkholderia pyrrocinia JK-SH007 by homologous recombination with freeze-thawing transformation.

Transcription factors in plant-pathogenic fungi are systematically reviewed. This includes their classification and a current state of the functional research into their diverse regulatory roles pertaining to fungal virulence.

The 26 characterized transcription factors with different signalling pathways and cellular processes are associated with virulence in Fusarium oxysporum.