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  1. Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a major staple food crop for more than a billion people in the world. Cassava mosaic virus (CMV), belonging to the Geminiviridae family, is a primary threat to cassava produc...

    Authors: Duan Wang, Guixiu Huang, Tao Shi, Guofen Wang, Rongxiang Fang, Xuan Zhang and Jian Ye

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:18

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  2. Targeted genome editing technology is becoming one of the most important genetic tools and widely employed in the plant pathology community. In recent years, CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palin...

    Authors: Gokul Gosavi, Fang Yan, Bin Ren, Yongjie Kuang, Daqi Yan, Xueping Zhou and Huanbin Zhou

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:21

    Content type: Review

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  4. Although Psathyrostachys huashanica has excellent potential for resistance gene mining and molecular genetic breeding, no reference genome is available. To date, most studies of P. huashanica have been focused on...

    Authors: Chuan Shen, Caiyan Wei, Jingyuan Li, Xudong Zhang and Yunfeng Wu

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:19

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  5. The quarantine bacterium Xanthomonas fragariae causes angular leaf spots on strawberry. Its population structure was recently found to be divided into four (sub)groups resulting from two distinct main groups. Xan...

    Authors: Michael Gétaz, Jochen Blom, Theo H. M. Smits and Joël F. Pothier

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:17

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  6. Plant pathogenic bacteria engage in an ongoing struggle for survival. Gram negative phytopathogenic prokaryotes deploy type III secretion system to deliver effector proteins into plant cells to manipulate the ...

    Authors: Wenxiu Ma, Xiameng Xu, Lulu Cai, Yanyan Cao, Fazal Haq, James R. Alfano, Bo Zhu, Lifang Zou and Gongyou Chen

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:16

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  8. The receptor-like kinase (RLK) FERONIA functions in immunity in Arabidopsis. Here, we systemically screened rice RLK genes encoding FERONIA-like receptor (FLRs) that may be involved in rice-Magnaporthe oryzae int...

    Authors: Yan-Yan Huang, Xin-Xian Liu, Ying Xie, Xiao-Yu Lin, Zi-Jin Hu, He Wang, Liang-Fang Wang, Wen-Qiang Dang, Ling-Li Zhang, Yong Zhu, Hui Feng, Mei Pu, Ji-Qun Zhao, Ji-Wei Zhang, Yan Li, Jing Fan…

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:14

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  9. Sclerotial development is a vital stage in the life cycles of many fungal plant pathogens. In this study, the protein Ss-CAD, which contains three conserved domains of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD), was...

    Authors: Jiahong Zhou, Yang Lin, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang and Jiasen Cheng

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:13

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  10. Lysobacter enzymogenes OH11 is a non-flagellated, ubiquitous soil bacterium with broad-spectrum antifungal activities. Although lacking flagella, it employs another type of motile behavior, known as twitching mot...

    Authors: Long Lin, Mimi Zhou, Danyu Shen, Sen Han, Alex M. Fulano, Shan-Ho Chou and Guoliang Qian

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:12

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  11. Small molecules are able to regulate numerous cellular processes through binding to various bacterial receptor proteins, but the mechanisms and functions by which these chemicals coordinate and execute remain ...

    Authors: Sen Han, Mingming Yang, Alex M. Fulano, Long Lin, Shan-Ho Chou and Guoliang Qian

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:11

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  12. Yam mild mosaic virus (YMMV) is prevalent in yams (Dioscorea spp.) worldwide. To gain an insight into the genetic diversity and molecular evolution of YMMV, 89 isolates from West Africa, Asia, South Pacific, and ...

    Authors: Cheng-Wu Zou, Jiao-Rong Meng, Zi-Ting Yao, Lei Zhang, Zhi-Qiang Wang, Ben-Hui Wei and Bao-Shan Chen

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:10

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  13. The severity of plant diseases, traditionally the proportion of the plant tissue exhibiting symptoms, is a key quantitative variable to know for many diseases and is prone to error. Good quality disease severi...

    Authors: Clive H. Bock, Jayme G. A. Barbedo, Emerson M. Del Ponte, David Bohnenkamp and Anne-Katrin Mahlein

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:9

    Content type: Review

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  14. Ubiquitin-specific protease (UBP) family is the largest group of deubiquitinases, which plays important roles in eukaryotic organisms. Comprehensive analysis of UBP genes has not been conducted in the plant patho...

    Authors: Xuan Cai, Zhao Wang, Yuxi Hou, Caiyun Liu, Ahmed Hendy, Junjie Xing and Xiao-Lin Chen

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:8

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  15. Silicon (Si) has been widely employed in agriculture to enhance resistance against pathogens in many crop plants. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of Si-mediated resistance remain elusive. In this ...

    Authors: Lili Wang, Min Dong, Qiong Zhang, Ying Wu, Liang Hu, James F. Parson, Edward Eisenstein, Xiangge Du and Shunyuan Xiao

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:7

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  16. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) signaling plays a central role in plant immune response. BPAs, referred to as binding partner 1 of accelerated cell death 11 (ACD11) (BPA1) and BPA1-like proteins, regulate ROS-me...

    Authors: Xiong Zhang, Gan Ai, Xiaodan Wang, Hao Peng, Zhiyuan Yin and Daolong Dou

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:6

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  18. Diseases caused by Phytophthora species seriously affect global crop production and food security. Identification of key factors involved in plant resistance is valuable for disease management. Previously, we cha...

    Authors: Jing Yu, Chunyue Chai, Gan Ai, Yuling Jia, Wenjing Liu, Xiong Zhang, Tian Bai and Daolong Dou

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:4

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  19. Wheat dwarf virus (WDV), a mastrevirus transmitted by the leafhopper Psammotettix alienus, causes a severe disease in cereal crops. Typical symptoms of wheat plants infected by WDV are yellowing and severe dwarfi...

    Authors: Yu Liu, Yan Liu, Carl Spetz, Li Li and Xifeng Wang

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:3

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  20. Neonicotinoid insecticides are used for preventing insects from transmitting plant viruses. This group of chemicals are easily taken up by plants and translocated to different tissues and are applicable for so...

    Authors: Lei Li, Zhihong Hu, Tan Dai, Panqing Liu, Chen Chen, Pengfei Liu, Jiajin Guo, Hucheng Liu, Songlin Li, Jianjun Hao and Xili Liu

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:2

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  21. Plants trigger a highly orchestrated defence mechanism in response to viral infection. In this study, we aimed at understanding the molecular events that lead to more accelerated cell death in Nicotiana benthamia...

    Authors: Mercy Macharia, Prem P. Das, Naweed I. Naqvi and Sek-Man Wong

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2020 2:1

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  22. Rice viruses, known as “rice killer”, are vector-borne pathogens that cause severe disease and significant yield loss in rice production around the world. Rice virus disease is characterized by uncontrolled vi...

    Authors: Jiaqi Qin, Ci Wang, Leqi Wang, Shanshan Zhao and Jianguo Wu

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:34

    Content type: Review

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  23. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small (20–24 nucleotides (nt) long) non-coding RNAs. One mature miRNA can be transcribed from one or more gene loci known as miRNA genes (MIRs). The transcript of a MIR forms a s...

    Authors: Yan Li, John Martin Jerome Jeyakumar, Qin Feng, Zhi-Xue Zhao, Jing Fan, Muhammad Ibrahim Khaskheli and Wen-Ming Wang

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:33

    Content type: Review

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  24. Verticillum dahliae is a notorious plant pathogenic fungus, which can cause wilt disease on hundreds of plant species. The genome of V. dahliae has been sequenced and annotated, but incorrect gene annotations and...

    Authors: Dianguang Xiong, Yonglin Wang and Chengming Tian

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:31

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  25. Membrane remodeling modulates many biological processes. The binding of peripheral proteins to lipid membranes results in membrane invaginations and protrusions, which regulate essential intra-cellular membran...

    Authors: Lili Lin, Xiaomin Chen, Ammarah Shabbir, Si Chen, Xuewen Chen, Zonghua Wang and Justice Norvienyeku

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:32

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  26. Rice bacterial blight (BB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is one of the most destructive diseases in rice-growing regions worldwide. Zinc thiazole is a novel bactericide and has been applied for ...

    Authors: Xian Chen, Lan Zhou, Pedro Laborda, Yancun Zhao, Kaihuai Li and Fengquan Liu

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:30

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  27. Many RNA viruses have genetically diverse populations in a single host. Important biological characteristics may be related to the levels of diversity, including adaptability, host specificity, and host range....

    Authors: Bin Tian, Frederick E. Gildow, Andrew L. Stone, Diana J. Sherman, Vernon D. Damsteegt and William L. Schneider

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:29

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  28. Phytophthora sojae is a destructive pathogen of soybean that is widely distributed in the world. The interaction between P. sojae and soybean follows the gene-for-gene model. The use of resistant soybean cultivar...

    Authors: Jin Yang, Xiaomen Wang, Baodian Guo, Jie Huang, Wenwu Ye, Suomeng Dong, Yan Wang, Xiaobo Zheng and Yuanchao Wang

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:28

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  29. After publication of this article (Phukan et al. 2019), it was brought to our attention that two important research papers with regard to the development of mCherry tagged Ralstonia solanacearum strains were miss...

    Authors: Tarinee Phukan, Kristi Kabyashree, Radhika Singh, Pankaj L. Sharma, Niraj Singh, Anjan Barman, Biswa R. Jena and Suvendra K. Ray

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:27

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    The original article was published in Phytopathology Research 2019 1:23

  30. Fusarium head blight (FHB) caused by the ascomycete fungus Fusarium graminearum can result in significant crop losses and render the crops harmful to human health due to contamination with mycotoxin. Although the...

    Authors: Han Qiu, Xu Zhao, Wenqin Fang, Huiming Wu, Yakubu Saddeeq Abubakar, Guo-dong Lu, Zonghua Wang and Wenhui Zheng

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:26

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  31. Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, is one of the most destructive diseases of wheat in China. Conjunction area of Gansu, Sichuan and Shaanxi, acting as over-summering and over-winte...

    Authors: Cuicui Wang, Rui Zhang, Bingyao Chu, Bo Ming Wu and Zhanhong Ma

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:25

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  32. TMV (24A + UPD) is a mutant virus that a 24 nt internal poly(A) tract was introduced downstream of the coat protein (CP) gene in TMV genome. TMV (24A + UPD) induced more severe necrosis in Nicotiana benthamiana a...

    Authors: Song Guo and Sek-Man Wong

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:24

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  33. Ralstonia solanacearum causes a lethal bacterial wilt disease in numerous plants including important vegetable crops such as eggplant and tomato. One of the difficulties in studying virulence of this bacterium in...

    Authors: Tarinee Phukan, Kristi Kabyashree, Radhika Singh, Pankaj L. Sharma, Niraj Singh, Anjan Barman, Biswa R. Jena and Suvendra K. Ray

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:23

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Phytopathology Research 2019 1:27

  34. Fusarium wilt, caused by the soil-borne fungal pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), is considered as one of the most threatening diseases of banana. The Cavendish variety, resistant to Foc race 1 (R...

    Authors: Shulang Fei, Elizabeth Czislowski, Stephen Fletcher, Jonathan Peters, Jacqueline Batley, Elizabeth Aitken and Neena Mitter

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:22

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  35. Transcription profiling assays have revealed substantial changes in gene expression during plant-microbe interactions, but it is often time- and labor-consuming to define the causative roles of the differentia...

    Authors: Qing-Le Chang, Hai-Jiao Xu, You-Liang Peng and Jun Fan

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:21

    Content type: Methodology

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  36. The simplicity of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) genome, encoding six proteins only, contrasts with the complexity of its impact on tomato plants. In this review, we discuss our understanding of how TYLCV ...

    Authors: Rena Gorovits, Iris Sobol, Miasser Altaleb, Henryk Czosnek and Ghandi Anfoka

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:20

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  37. Oomycete pathogens secrete hundreds of effectors, including avirulence proteins that trigger host genotype-specific resistance response, to manipulate host immunity and facilitate infection. Sequence and expre...

    Authors: Qinhu Wang, Tingting Li, Chengcheng Zhong, Shizhi Luo, Ke Xu, Biao Gu, Yuling Meng, Brett M. Tyler and Weixing Shan

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:18

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  38. Most plant reoviruses encode a type of nonstructural protein that assembles tubular structures to package virions for viral spread in planthopper or leafhopper vectors. These tubules are propelled by actin fil...

    Authors: Qian Chen, Limin Zheng, Panpan Zhong, Dongsheng Jia, Yuyan Liu, Qianzhuo Mao and Taiyun Wei

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:19

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  39. Gray mold, caused by Botrytis cinerea, is one of the most destructive diseases of strawberry in China. For resistance monitoring, 198 B. cinerea isolates were collected from strawberry greenhouses at 10 locations...

    Authors: Muhammad Adnan, Mohamed Sobhy Hamada, Matthias Hahn, Guo-Qing Li and Chao-Xi Luo

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:17

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  40. Phospholipids are major structural components of all cell membranes and participate in energy storage, signal transduction and environmental adaptability in eukaryotes. To date, the enzymes involved in phospho...

    Authors: Jing Wang, Haixia Wang, Chenying Zhang, Tianjing Wu, Zhonghua Ma and Yun Chen

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:16

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  41. The WRKY transcription factor (TF) gene family expanded greatly in the evolutionary process from green algae to flowering plants through whole genome, segmental, and tandem duplications. Genomic sequences from di...

    Authors: Xujun Chen, Cheng Li, Han Wang and Zejian Guo

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:13

    Content type: Review

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  42. Phytophthora sojae is an important plant pathogen affecting soybean crops worldwide. The specific mechanisms this pathogen uses to penetrate the host cell and initiate infection have not been fully elucidated. Ho...

    Authors: Nicholas Grams, Hannah Komar, Dylan Jainchill and Manuel Ospina-Giraldo

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:15

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  43. Puccinia striiformis Westend. is an obligate biotrophic parasite that could infect wheat and grasses to cause stripe rusts. P. striiformis, a species of rust fungi, is divided into several formae speciales based ...

    Authors: Shujie Huang, Shuxia Zuo, Dan Zheng, Yao Liu, Zhimin Du, Zhensheng Kang and Jie Zhao

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:14

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  44. False smut is a destructive grain disease of rice worldwide, characterized by false smut balls formed in rice flowers. Here we identified a small secreted protein UV_1261 contributing to virulence of Ustilaginoid...

    Authors: Jing Fan, Ning Du, Liang Li, Guo-Bang Li, Yu-Qiu Wang, Yu-Feng Zhou, Xiao-Hong Hu, Jie Liu, Ji-Qun Zhao, Yan Li, Fu Huang and Wen-Ming Wang

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:11

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  45. Plasmodiophora brassicae is an important biotrophic eukaryotic plant pathogen and a member of the rhizarian protists. This biotrophic pathogen causes clubroot in cruciferous plants via novel intracellular mechani...

    Authors: Kai Bi, Tao Chen, Zhangchao He, Zhixiao Gao, Ying Zhao, Huiquan Liu, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng and Daohong Jiang

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:12

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  46. Clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated proteins (CRISPR/Cas) based genome editing technology has been developed from the adaptive immune system used by many bacteria and a...

    Authors: Kangquan Yin, Ting Han, Ke Xie, Jinping Zhao, Junqi Song and Yule Liu

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:9

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  47. Benzimidazole fungicides (MBCs) have been widely used in agriculture since 1970s, and resistance to this class of fungicides in Botrytis cinerea is reported worldwide. Resistance to MBCs in B. cinerea is related ...

    Authors: Fei Fan, Matthias Hahn, Guo-Qing Li, Yang Lin and Chao-Xi Luo

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:10

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  48. Soybean (Glycine max) seedlings with symptoms of Pythium damping-off were collected in northeastern Iowa soybean fields and processed for isolation of the causal agents on both potato dextrose agar (PDA) and pima...

    Authors: Shrishail S. Navi, Tra Huynh, Chase G. Mayers and Xiao-Bing Yang

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:8

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  49. The serological method is one of the most important techniques extensively used in crop production to detect different pathogens, especially plant viruses. An antiserum is essential for serological tests. The ...

    Authors: Fang Yang, M. Rashid, Xiao-Yan Zhang, Zong-Ying Zhang, Ying Wang, Da-Wei Li, Jia-Lin Yu and Cheng-Gui Han

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:5

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  50. Salicylic acid (SA) plays a crucial regulatory role in plant immunity. NPR1 (non-expressor of pathogenesis related-1) is a SA receptor and plays a pivotal role in SA signaling. However, pathogen effectors whic...

    Authors: Qi Li, Yanyu Chen, Ji Wang, Fen Zou, Yuling Jia, Danyu Shen, Qimeng Zhang, Maofeng Jing, Daolong Dou and Meixiang Zhang

    Citation: Phytopathology Research 2019 1:6

    Content type: Research

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