Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers

TL;DR: Genome-wide catalogs of P. infestans effectors are available, enabling effectoromics approaches that accelerate R gene cloning and specificity profiling and monitoring effector allelic diversity in pathogen populations can assist in R gene deployment in agriculture.

TL;DR: It is shown that isolates of the 13_A2 lineage are among the most aggressive on cultivated potatoes, outcompete other aggressive lineages in the field, and overcome previously effective forms of plant host resistance, illustrating how pathogen population monitoring, combined with genome analysis, informs the management of devastating disease epidemics.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that effector genomics enables discovery and functional profiling of late blight R genes and Avr genes at an unprecedented rate and promises to accelerate the engineering ofLate blight resistant potato varieties.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the elicitin INF1 functions as an avirulence factor in the interaction between N. benthamiana and P. infestans, and several transformants deficient in inf1 mRNA and INF1 protein were obtained.

TL;DR: A local RGA approach was adopted using genomic information from the model Solanaceous plant tomato to isolate R3a, a potato gene that confers race-specific resistance to the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans and some of its paralogues whose functions remain unknown.