Abstract

Rice blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most destructive fungal diseases of rice and a model for studying fungal-plant interactions. The fungus penetrates plant cells with appressoria and develops the narrow primary invasive hyphae (IH) and, subsequently, the bulbous secondary IH. As a hemibiotrophic pathogen, biotrophic IH are enclosed in the extra-invasive-hyphal membrane (EIHM) produced by the plant cells [1]. Like many other fungal pathogens [2], M. oryzae secretes effector proteins to manipulate plant immunity and physiology to promote infection.

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This is the publisher pdf of Zhang S, Xu J-R (2014) Effectors and Effector Delivery in Magnaporthe oryzae. PLoS Pathog 10(1): e1003826 and is available at: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003826.

Date of this Version

1-2-2014

DOI

10.1371/journal.ppat.1003826

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