Sébastien Duplessis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed the complement of TFs in fungal genomes with an emphasis on Pucciniales and found that despite their large gene numbers, rust genomes have a reduced repertoire of TF genes compared to other fungi.

TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis showed several specific expansion events at the root of the order Pucciniales with subsequent expansions in rust taxonomical families, and the OPT genes showed dynamic expression patterns along the rust life cycle and more particularly during infection of the poplar host tree, suggesting a specialization for the acquisition of nitrogen and sulfur through the transport of oligopeptides from the host during biotrophic growth.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed 249 highly cited publications focused on plant pathogen effectors (i.e., Highly Influential studies on plant Pathogen Effectors; thereafter HIPEs) published between 2000 and 2020 and revealed the evolution of research trends, model molecules, and model organisms over the last two decades.

TL;DR: This review comprehensively inventories the proteins or peptides exhibiting a biochemically-demonstrated antifungal activity toward Pucciniales, and analyses the bioassays used to characterize them, and shows that almost no mode of action against rust fungi was elucidated.

TL;DR: These findings show that sequence-unrelated effectors can adopt folds similar to known proteins, and encourage the use of biochemical and structural approaches to functionally characterize rust effector candidates.