AUTHOR=Zuluaga Paola , Szurek Boris , Koebnik Ralf , Kroj Thomas , Morel Jean-Benoit 

TITLE=Effector Mimics and Integrated Decoys, the Never-Ending Arms Race between Rice and Xanthomonas oryzae

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2017

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2017.00431

DOI=10.3389/fpls.2017.00431

ISSN=1664-462X

ABSTRACT=<p>Plants are constantly challenged by a wide range of pathogens and have therefore evolved an array of mechanisms to defend against them. In response to these defense systems, pathogens have evolved strategies to avoid recognition and suppress plant defenses (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">Brown and Tellier, 2011</xref>). Three recent reports dealing with the resistance of rice to <italic>Xanthomonas oryzae</italic> have added a new twist to our understanding of this fascinating co-evolutionary arms race (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">Ji et al., 2016</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">Read et al., 2016</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">Triplett et al., 2016</xref>). They show that pathogens also develop sophisticated effector mimics to trick recognition.</p>