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  • Competition is fierce in the microbial world, making evolutionary training and fitness essential for a microorganism to survive and thrive. To honour this spirit, in this Essay an expert panel has selected seven special events to make up the inaugural Microbial Olympics.

    • Merry Youle
    • Forest Rohwer
    • S. Craig Cary
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 10, P: 583-588

  • With the advent of high-throughput sequencing, the genomes of many economically important filamentous fungal and oomycete plant pathogens have been sequenced, revealing a trend in several lineages for repeat driven expansion. Sylvain Raffaele and Sophien Kamoun review the genomic features of these pathogens, with a particular focus on genome structure and plasticity.

    • Sylvain Raffaele
    • Sophien Kamoun
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 10, P: 417-430

  • Genetic analysis of agronomic traits in crops is complicated by the long generation times and challenges of growing and phenotyping plants in large field trials. Abe et al. show how whole genome resequencing can be used to identify the genetic basis of subtle phenotypic traits in rice.

    • Akira Abe
    • Shunichi Kosugi
    • Ryohei Terauchi
    Research
    Nature Biotechnology
    Volume: 30, P: 174-178

  • A gene that helps protect potatoes from destructive late blight is identified in a wild relative. It encodes a membrane receptor-like protein, the first discovered in this system, and makes cultivated potato plants more resistant to a broad range of pathogens.

    • Juan Du
    • Estelle Verzaux
    • Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers
    Research
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 1, P: 1-5

  • A plant immune receptor is engineered to recognize viruses rather than bacteria.

    • Artemis Giannakopoulou
    • Aleksandra Bialas
    • Vivianne G A A Vleeshouwers
    News & Views
    Nature Biotechnology
    Volume: 34, P: 391-392

  • The plant pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum secretes an effector that is similar to a plant peptide hormone, underscoring the variety of mechanisms that plant pathogens have evolved to tamper with host physiology.

    • Sophien Kamoun
    • Cyril Zipfel
    News & Views
    Nature Microbiology
    Volume: 1, P: 1-2

  • Phytophthora infestans is a fungus-like eukaryote and the most destructive pathogen of potato, with current annual worldwide potato crop losses due to late blight estimated at $6.7 billion. Here, the sequence of the P. infestans genome is reported. Comparison with two other Phytophthora genomes showed rapid turnover and extensive expansion of certain secreted disease effector proteins, probably explaining the rapid adaptability of the pathogen to host plants.

    • Brian J. Haas
    • Sophien Kamoun
    • Chad Nusbaum
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 461, P: 393-398

  • A secreted effector from the plant pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis has evolved to acquire a new function that contributes to the unique lifestyle of this species, highlighting the utility of using comparative genetic analyses to address current questions in plant–microorganism interactions.

    • Erin K. Zess
    • Aleksandra Białas
    • Sophien Kamoun
    News & Views
    Nature Microbiology
    Volume: 4, P: 210-211

  • Pathogen perception triggers a monomeric nucleotide-binding leucine-rich plant immune receptor to form a pentameric wheel-like complex termed a resistosome, with the N-terminal α helices forming a funnel-shaped structure that may perturb plasma membrane integrity to cause hypersensitive cell death.

    • Hiroaki Adachi
    • Sophien Kamoun
    • Abbas Maqbool
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 5, P: 457-458

  • Although we have a detailed knowledge of how many bacterial pathogens deliver virulence effectors into host cells, until recently, we had little corresponding knowledge for eukaryotic pathogens. This Review focuses on the malaria parasitePlasmodium falciparum and the plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans, which have recently been shown to use equivalent host-targeting signals.

    • Kasturi Haldar
    • Sophien Kamoun
    • Christiaan van Ooij
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 4, P: 922-931

  • The Ukraine–Russia war will impact global food security over months if not years. In the wake of COVID-19 and in the face of increasing climate change, we propose responses to a multi-layered global food crisis that mitigate near-term food security risks, stabilize wheat supplies and transition towards long-term agri-food system resilience.

    • Alison R. Bentley
    • Jason Donovan
    • Bram Govaerts
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Food
    Volume: 3, P: 483-486

    • Daniel MacLean
    • Sophien Kamoun
    Correspondence
    Nature Biotechnology
    Volume: 30, P: 33-34