Martijn van de Mortel

TL;DR: The findings suggest that in response to water-limiting conditions, pseudomonads produce alginate, which influences biofilm development and EPS physiochemical properties, and collectively these responses may facilitate the maintenance of a hydrated microenvironment, protecting residents from desiccation stress and increasing survival.

TL;DR: The data suggest that ASR initially induces a nonspecific response that is transient or is suppressed when early steps in colonization are completed in both soybean genotypes, and the race-specific resistance phenotype of Rpp2 is manifested in massive gene expression changes after the initial response prior to the onset of rapid fungal growth.

TL;DR: Using simple sequence repeat markers, this article developed a bacterial artificial chromosome contig for the Rpp4 locus in susceptible cv Williams82 (Wm82) and identified three candidate disease resistance genes with greatest similarity to the lettuce (Lactuca sativa) RGC2 family of coiled coil-nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeat disease resistant genes.

TL;DR: The use of mini‐Tn5‐′phoA to identify genes in Pseudomonas putida that are matric water stress controlled and to generate mutants defective in desiccation tolerance is described to suggest that the mechanisms for adaptation for growth in low‐water‐content habitats are different from those forgrowth in high‐osmolarity habitats.

TL;DR: This work purified haustoria from infected leaves and used 454 sequencing to examine the haustorial transcriptomes of Phakopsora pachyrhizi and Uromyces appendiculatus, the causal agents of soybean rust and common bean rust, respectively, to provide a foundation for the comparative analysis of haUSTorial gene expression with further insights into physiology and effector evolution.