ArticleMolecular plant pathology2026
Integrated Functional Characterization of Hemileia vastatrix Effector Candidates Reveals Coordinated Immune Suppression, Sequential Deployment and Compartment-Specific Targeting.
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Coffee leaf rust, caused by the obligate biotrophic fungus Hemileia vastatrix, remains the most destructive disease of coffee worldwide. Although genomic and transcriptomic studies have identified a large number of candidate effectors, experimental evidence supporting their biological roles during infection remains limited. Here, we integrated functional assays, temporal expression profiling during coffee infection and subcellular localization analyses to investigate the biological properties of 44 H. vastatrix effector candidates (HvECs). Using the Pseudomonas fluorescens EtHAn effector delivery system in Nicotiana benthamiana, 15 HvECs consistently suppressed pattern-triggered immunity (PTI), indicating that immune suppression is a widespread property among the H. vastatrix effector repertoire, as assessed in this heterologous system. Five HvECs also attenuated AvrB-triggered effector-triggered immunity (ETI), and three suppressed both PTI and ETI, suggesting that a subset of HvECs targets conserved regulatory nodes shared by these interconnected immune pathways. Temporal expression profiling revealed sequential deployment of HvECs throughout infection, with distinct subsets predominating during pre-biotrophic development, host penetration or biotrophic colonization, consistent with stage-specific functions during fungal pathogenesis. Subcellular localization analyses further showed that HvECs preferentially accumulated in the nucleus or chloroplasts, compartments known as central hubs of plant immune regulation. This study provides the most comprehensive functional characterization of H. vastatrix effector candidates to date, establishes a biologically informed framework for prioritizing candidates for future identification of avirulence determinants recognized by SH resistance genes, and advances our understanding of how the coffee rust fungus orchestrates immune suppression across time and cellular space during pathogenesis.
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