Degraded and unmapped Alpine peatlands can be identified to prioritize monitoring and restoration across borders, based on a multi-sensor workflow combining Sentinel satellite and terrain data validat...

Abstract. Outbreak sequencing provides insight into the origin and evolutionary processes acting on emerging pathogens. Sequencing a historic multihost out

Plants perceive external and internal signals via receptors to modulate their growth, development, and defenses. Leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like-kinase (RLKs) and receptor-like-proteins (RLPs) are t...

Aphanomyces euteiches is a formidable soil-borne pathogen that induces severe root rot in pea, lentil, and other legume crops. Although it grows as filamentous, fungus-like hyphae, A. euteiches is an oomycete of the stramenopile lineage and is evolutionarily more closely related to brown algae and diatoms than to true fungi. First described in 1925 in the United States, it is the most destructive soil-borne pathogen of pea, lentil, and alfalfa and also affects other legumes such as snap bean, clover, and vetch, causing yield losses of up to 80% in heavily infested fields.

Abstract. A virus with a circular single-stranded DNA genome, HthCRESSV1, was discovered in an oomycete, Halophytophthora thermoambigua, isolated from brac

The genus Phytophthora (Oomycota) comprises highly destructive and widely distributed plant pathogens that threaten global agriculture and forest ecosystems; however, the evolutionary significance of ...

Phytophthora species cause many devastating diseases of plants, including those of forest trees. Agathis australis (New Zealand kauri) is an ancient a…

Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) is central in plant defense, but whether all cell types execute ETI similarly remains unknown. We combined chemically imposed immune activation with single-cell…

A plant stress hormone disables soybean immunity by fueling a destructive cycle that prevents the formation of protective physical barriers against a devas

Scientists at Forest Research have discovered that some trees within native British juniper populations carry heritable natural resistance to the invasive tree pathogen, Phytophthora austrocedri.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) can deliver RNA and proteins into host cells to manipulate immunity; but how EVs transverse the cell wall is unknown. Using the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea that induc...

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