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Effectors of Filamentous Plant Pathogens: Commonalities amid Diversity.
Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR - 1 Jun 2017
Franceschetti Marina, Maqbool Abbas, Jiménez-Dalmaroni Maximiliano J, Pennington Helen G, Kamoun Sophien, Banfield Mark J
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Fungi and oomycetes are filamentous microorganisms that include a diversity of highly developed pathogens of plants. These are sophisticated modulators of plant processes that secrete an arsenal of effector proteins to target multiple host cell compartments and enable parasitic infection. Genome sequencing revealed complex catalogues of effectors of filamentous pathogens, with some species harboring hundreds of...
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