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Biotechnological potential of engineering pathogen effector proteins for use in plant disease management.

A key component in the management of many diseases of crops is the use of plant disease resistance genes. However, the discovery and then sequence identification of these plant genes is challenging, whereas the characterization of the molecules that they recognize, the effector/avirulence products in pathogens, is often considerably more straight forward. Effectors are small proteins secreted by pathogens that can play major roles in modulating a plant's defense against attack. Effectors can be used to guide breeding of resistance genes, to trigger defense responses, and are part of integrated disease management strategies for crop protection. This review covers the role of effector-driven biotechnology in controlling plant diseases caused by fungi or oomycetes. Given that multi-billion dollar agriculture crops are based in some cases on plants recognizing just a handful of such effector proteins, there is considerable scope to use more fully effector proteins as a biotechnology resource in agriculture.

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