Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Coordinators: Martin Francis, Kamoun Sophien

Language: English

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Plants and microbes interact in a complex relationship that can have both harmful and beneficial impacts on both plant and microbial communities. Effectors, secreted microbial molecules that alter plant processes and facilitate colonization, are central to understanding the complicated interplay between plants and microbes.  Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions unlocks the molecular basis of this important class of microbial molecules and describes their diverse and complex interactions with host plants.

Effectors in Plant Microbe Interactions is divided into five sections that take stock of the current knowledge on effectors of plant-associated organisms. Coverage ranges from the impact of bacterial, fungal and oomycete effectors on plant immunity and high-throughput genomic analysis of effectors to the function and trafficking of these microbial molecules. The final section looks at effectors secreted by other eukaryotic microbes that are the focus of current and future research efforts.

Written by leading international experts in plant-microbe interactions, Effectors in Plant Microbe Interactions, will be an essential volume for plant biologists, microbiologists, pathologists, and geneticists.

Contributors vii

Foreword xiii

Preface xv

Section 1 Plant Immune Response Pathways

1 Innate Immunity: Pattern Recognition in Plants 3
Delphine Chinchilla and Thomas Boller

2 Microbial Effectors and Their Role in Plant Defense Suppression 33
Dagmar Hann and Thomas Boller

Section 2 Genome-Wide Analyses of Microbial Effectors and Effector Evolution

3 Comparative Genomics and Evolution of Bacterial Type III Effectors 55
Ralf Koebnik and Magdalen Lindeberg

4 The Effectors of Smut Fungi 77
Gunther Doehlemann, Kerstin Schipper and Regine Kahmann

5 Evolutionary and Functional Dynamics of Oomycete Effector Genes 101
Mireille van Damme, Liliana M. Cano, Ricardo Oliva,Sebastian Schornack, Marίa Eugenia Segretin, Sophien Kamoun,and Sylvain Raffaele

Section 3 Microbial Effector Functions: Virulence and Avirulence

6 Suppression and Activation of the Plant Immune System by Pseudomonas syringae Effectors AvrPto and AvrPtoB 123
Gregory Martin

7 Rust Effectors 155
Sébastien Duplessis, David L. Joly, and Peter N. Dodds

8 Dothideomycete Effectors Facilitating Biotrophic and Necrotrophic Lifestyles 195
Thierry Rouxel and Pierre J.G.M. de Wit

Section 4 Effector Trafficking: Processing/Uptake by Plants and Secretion/Delivery by Microbes

9 Effector Translocation and Delivery by the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae 221
Thomas A. Mentlak, Nicholas J. Talbot, and Thomas Kroj

10 Entry of Oomycete and Fungal Effectors into Host Cells 243
Brett M. Tyler

Section 5 Emerging Effectors—Symbionts, Nematodes, Insects, Metabolites

11 Roles of Effector Proteins in the Legume–Rhizobia Symbiosis 279
Silvia Ardissone and William James Deakin

12 Mutualistic Effectors: Architects of Symbiosis 295
Jonathan M. Plett and Francis Martin

13 Nematode Effector Proteins: Targets and Functions in Plant Parasitism 327
Marie-Noëlle Rosso, Richard S. Hussey, Eric L. Davis,Geert Smant, Thomas J. Baum, Pierre Abad, and Melissa G. Mitchum

14 Effectors in Plant–Insect Interactions 355
Jorunn I.B. Bos and Saskia A. Hogenhout

15 Fungal Secondary Metabolites: Ancient Toxins and Novel Effectors in Plant–Microbe Interactions 377
Jérôme Collemare and Marc-Henri Lebrun

Index 401

Francis Martin is the Head of the Ecogenomics of Interactions Laboratory at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA).

Sophien Kamoun is Senior Scientist and Head of the Sainsbury Laboratory and Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.