ReviewFrontiers in plant science2015
MorTAL Kombat: the story of defense against TAL effectors through loss-of-susceptibility.
Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 53 papers.
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- Control Targets in Plant-Pathogenic Bacteria: From Growth-Essential Processes to Anti-Virulence Strategies and Candidate Targets inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Phenotypic and transcriptomic characterization of OsSWEET14-edited rice (cv. Samkwang) with enhanced bacterial blight resistance.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Comparative genomics using long-read sequencing identifies nearly identical TAL effector regions in twoFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Genome-Wide Association Studies and QTL Mapping Reveal a New Locus Associated with Resistance to Bacterial Pustule Caused byPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Definition of the effector landscape across 13 phytoplasma proteomes with LEAPH and EffectorComb.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2024Article
- Prevalence and diversity of TAL effector-like proteins in fungal endosymbioticMicrobial genomics · 2024Article
- Understanding the nature of blast resistance in combined bacterial leaf blight and blast gene pyramided lines of rice variety tellahamsa.Molecular biology reports · 2024Article
- Tal6b/AvrXa27A, a hidden TALE targeting the susceptibility gene OsSWEET11a and the resistance gene Xa27 in rice.Plant communications · 2024Article
- Genetic Structure and TALome Analysis Highlight a High Level of Diversity in Burkinabe Xanthomonas Oryzae pv. oryzae Populations.Rice (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- A varied AvrXa23-like TALE enables the bacterial blight pathogen to avoid being trapped by Xa23 resistance gene in rice.Journal of advanced research · 2022Article
- Rice transcriptome upon infection with3 Biotech · 2022Article
- Flexible TALEs for an expanded use in gene activation, virulence and scaffold engineering.Nucleic acids research · 2022Article
- Rice SUT and SWEET Transporters.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- What the Wild Things Do: Mechanisms of Plant Host Manipulation by Bacterial Type III-Secreted Effector Proteins.Microorganisms · 2021Review
- An ERF121 transcription factor from Brassica oleracea is a target for the conserved TAL-effectors from different Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris strains.Molecular plant pathology · 2021Article
- Linkage analysis of rice bacterial blight resistance geneBreeding science · 2021Article
- TAL Effector Repertoires of Strains ofMicroorganisms · 2021Article
- Consequences of adaptation of TAL effectors on host susceptibility to Xanthomonas.PLoS genetics · 2021Article
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- Erratum issued
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4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Many plant-pathogenic xanthomonads rely on Transcription Activator-Like (TAL) effectors to colonize their host. This particular family of type III effectors functions as specific plant transcription factors via a programmable DNA-binding domain. Upon binding to the promoters of plant disease susceptibility genes in a sequence-specific manner, the expression of these host genes is induced. However, plants have evolved specific strategies to counter the action of TAL effectors and confer resistance. One mechanism is to avoid the binding of TAL effectors by mutations of their DNA binding sites, resulting in resistance by loss-of-susceptibility. This article reviews our current knowledge of the susceptibility hubs targeted by Xanthomonas TAL effectors, possible evolutionary scenarios for plants to combat the pathogen with loss-of-function alleles, and how this knowledge can be used overall to develop new pathogen-informed breeding strategies and improve crop resistance.
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