Jorunn I. B. Bos

TL;DR: Technological progress has enabled the identification of insect herbivore effectors and their targets that will lead to the development of novel strategies for pest resistances in plants.

TL;DR: The Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans is predicted to secrete hundreds of effector proteins and it is revealed that 16 of the 62 examined effectors cause phenotypes when expressed inside plant cells, and structure-function experiments indicated that a 34–amino acid region in the C-terminal half of AVRblb2 is sufficient for triggering Rpi-blb 2 hypersensitivity.

TL;DR: RXLR sequence is overrepresented and positionally constrained in the secretome of Phytophthora relative to other eukaryotes and robust evidence of positive selection is obtained in more than two-thirds of the examined paralog families of RXLR effectors.

TL;DR: This work showed that T. hamatum 382 actively induces systemic changes in plant physiology and disease resistance through systemic modulation of the expression of stress and metabolism genes.

TL;DR: A historical perspective on oomycete genetic research is provided and the state of the art in effector biology of plant pathogenic oomyCetes is summarized by describing what the authors consider to be the 10 most important concepts about oomykete effectors.