Plants growing in natural environments are associated with various microbes. Some microbes promote plant growth by producing beneficial compounds or enhancing nutrient uptake, whereas some are pathogenic to hosts. During long-term coevolution processes, plants developed mechanisms to distinguish various microbes, therefore, establishing different types of interactions. While microbes involve various mechanisms to sense host signals and evasion host defense responses to establish colonization.
Many effector proteins have arisen in various plant pathogens, as well as other virulence factors to suppress plant immunity or change the physiology processes of hosts for their benefit. Identifying those virulence genes and their targets in the host will provide extraordinary molecular insights into interactions between plants and microbes.
Therefore, this Research Topic calls for the original research as well as review articles focusing on the characterization of novel factors and signaling networks underlying plant-microbe interactions during the evasion and suppression of plant immunity by microbes. Submissions on the following topics are welcome, but not limited to:
- Characterization of novel effectors of pathogenic microbes
- Novel host targets of known virulent effectors
- Novel virulent factors that promote pathogenicity of microbes
- Molecular mechanisms of pathogenicity of plant pathogens
- Novel molecular tools for the study of plant-microbe interactions
- Molecular mechanisms of evasion of host detection or suppression of host immunity by pathogens
- Molecular mechanisms of suppression of host immunity in beneficial interactions between microbes and plants
Plants growing in natural environments are associated with various microbes. Some microbes promote plant growth by producing beneficial compounds or enhancing nutrient uptake, whereas some are pathogenic to hosts. During long-term coevolution processes, plants developed mechanisms to distinguish various microbes, therefore, establishing different types of interactions. While microbes involve various mechanisms to sense host signals and evasion host defense responses to establish colonization.
Many effector proteins have arisen in various plant pathogens, as well as other virulence factors to suppress plant immunity or change the physiology processes of hosts for their benefit. Identifying those virulence genes and their targets in the host will provide extraordinary molecular insights into interactions between plants and microbes.
Therefore, this Research Topic calls for the original research as well as review articles focusing on the characterization of novel factors and signaling networks underlying plant-microbe interactions during the evasion and suppression of plant immunity by microbes. Submissions on the following topics are welcome, but not limited to:
- Characterization of novel effectors of pathogenic microbes
- Novel host targets of known virulent effectors
- Novel virulent factors that promote pathogenicity of microbes
- Molecular mechanisms of pathogenicity of plant pathogens
- Novel molecular tools for the study of plant-microbe interactions
- Molecular mechanisms of evasion of host detection or suppression of host immunity by pathogens
- Molecular mechanisms of suppression of host immunity in beneficial interactions between microbes and plants
