The "Fine Grain: Molecular, Cellular, and Genomic Details of Cereal Crop Diseases" focus issue is now available online! This MPMI focus issue explores major pathogens and pests of wheat, rice, barley, maize, and oats—offering new insights into exploitable pathogen weakness and

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Diverse plant species detect bacterial flagellin using leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases to activate defense responses and promote resistance against bacterial invasion. Elizabeth K. Brauer et al. report that the flagellin-derived flg22 peptide induces callose, reactive.

Wheat co-infection with wheat curl mite–transmitted wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) and Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV) results in disease synergism with a drastically increased symptom phenotype of stunted growth, leaf bleaching, and enhanced titers of both viruses compared with

Zengcui Zhang et al. investigated the wheat–Parastagonospora nodorum pathosystem, a model for necrotrophic fungal interactions where SnTox3 induces disease via an inverse gene-for-gene mechanism. @FarisGenLab Learn more:

Transcriptomic analyses revealed that Fusarium graminearum expresses many candidate effector proteins during early phases of the infection process, some of which are annotated as proteases. @DarinoMartin et al. characterize an F. graminearum endopeptidase, FgTPP1 (FGSG_11164),

In the Striga hermonthica–rice pathosystem, cell wall dynamics play a key role in determining resistance or susceptibility. Using simultaneous RNA-seq and weighted gene co-expression network analysis, Damaris Barminga et al. compared interactions between Striga and resistant

Daniil M. Prigozhin et al. investigated the NLR complement of 26 nested association mapping founder lines of maize. To make this analysis accessible, researchers created NLRCladeFinder, a Google Colaboratory notebook, that accepts any newly identified NLR sequence, places it in.

Alexey Mikaberidze, Bruce A. McDonald, and Lukas Kronenberg reveal the genetic basis of leaf tolerance to the fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici, which causes the globally important disease Septoria tritici blotch on wheat.

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Adaptation to new climates poses a significant challenge for plant pathogens during range expansion, highlighting the importance of understanding their response to climate to accurately forecast disease outbreaks. Silvia Miñana-Posada and others explored the genetic architecture.

Janine Haueisen et al. investigated host specificity in Zymoseptoria tritici and two related species that form compatible and incompatible interactions with wheat. Through comparative microscopy, transcriptomics, and functional analyses, the researchers found a largely conserved

Haider Ali, @McdonaldMeganc, and @GraemeKettles developed a rapid forward genetics methodology to identify genes that enable Zymoseptoria tritici to gain virulence on previously resistant wheat varieties. Learn more:

Powdery mildews, particularly those infecting barley and wheat, serve as valuable models for studying obligate biotroph effector biology. Merle Bilstein-Schloemer, @MarionCMuller, and Isabel M. L. Saur summarize current insights into their effectoromes, highlight available omics

Over the past 20 years, genomics and genomics-enabled technologies have revealed remarkable diversity in genome size, architecture, and gene regulatory mechanisms. In this review, Wagner C. Fagundes et al. discuss how genomics has advanced our understanding of genome organization

As the global population continues to rise, increasing agricultural production to meet food demands becomes even more critical. However, the production of these vital crops is constantly threatened by phytopathological diseases, especially those caused by fungal pathogens such as

Katherine G. Zulak presents an overview of the rapidly changing landscape of fungicide resistance detection, illustrates how molecular techniques are being exploited to combat fungicide resistance in cereal crop phytopathogens, and highlights challenges and future research

Sarah Lipps and others synthesize existing literature on the colonization strategies, toxin accumulation, genetic architecture, and potential mechanisms of resistance to GER in maize and compare it with what is known regarding FHB in wheat. @JRutkoski

Using rice bacterial blight as an example, Eliza P. I. Loo et al. discuss gaps in information acquisition and transfer between the field and laboratory and indicate that collaboration among stakeholders, scientists, breeders, farmers, and policymakers could enhance the