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Tricking the guard: exploiting plant defense for disease susceptibility.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 2 Nov 2012
Lorang J, Kidarsa T, Bradford C S, Gilbert B, Curtis M, Tzeng S-C, Maier C S, Wolpert T J
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Typically, pathogens deploy virulence effectors to disable defense. Plants defeat effectors with resistance proteins that guard effector targets. We found that a pathogen exploits a resistance protein by activating it to confer susceptibility in Arabidopsis. The guard mechanism of plant defense is recapitulated by interactions among victorin (an effector produced by the necrotrophic fungus Cochliobolus...
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