Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

A Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector targets plant PP1c isoforms that promote late blight disease

  • Petra C. Boevink,
  • Xiaodan Wang,
  • Hazel McLellan,
  • Qin He,
  • Shaista Naqvi,
  • Miles R. Armstrong,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Ingo Hein,
  • Eleanor M. Gilroy,
  • Zhendong Tian,
  • Paul R. J. Birch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10311
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Phytophtora infestansis the causative agent of late blight disease in plants. Here Boevinket al. provide evidence that host protein phosphatases are targeted by a P. infestanseffector protein and are required for disease development.