Adam J. Bogdanove

TL;DR: The authors' results provide insight into the ancestral Xanthomonas genome and indicate that differentiation with respect to host- and tissue-specificity involved not major modifications or wholesale exchange of clusters, but subtle changes in a small number of genes or in non-coding sequences, and/or differences outside the clusters, potentially among regulatory targets or secretory substrates.

TL;DR: A role is demonstrated, in both monocot and dicot plants, of hemicellulose and pectin acetylation in plant defense against fungal pathogens.

TL;DR: An efficient protocol for purification and concentration of extracellular proteins was developed and used to characterize the T3 secretome of E. amylovora, and HrpJ was found to be essential for pathogenesis, and to play a major role in elicitation of the hypersensitive reaction in tobacco.

TL;DR: The utility of X11-5A for characterizing individual TAL effectors in rice was established and SWEET-targeting Tal effectors contribute broadly and non-tissue-specifically to virulence in rice, and their function is affected by host differences besides target sequences.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that whole genome sequencing combining Nanopore and Illumina reads effectively resolves NLR gene loci and identify an Xo1 candidate, an important step toward mechanistic characterization, including the role(s) of the zfBED domain.