Plant pathogens usually secrete effectors to suppress the host immune response, resulting in effector-triggered susceptibility (ETS). Plants use nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) to detect specific effectors and elicit effector-triggered immunity (ETI). Two recent papers (Liu et al. and Zhang et al.) have made promising progress in controlling rice blast by modulating ETS and ETI.
Keywords: effector; effector triggered immunity; effector triggered susceptibility; resistance protein; rice blast.
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