The Rice Blast
Plant killers make the cut - Nature Microbiology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00943-7.pdf?origin=ppubFrom appressorium to transpressorium—Defining the morphogenetic basis of host cell invasion by the rice blast fungus
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009779
Effectors
A clone resource of cereal heavy-metal associated (HMA) domains— putative targets of plant pathogen effector proteins
https://zenodo.org/record/5148559#.YQSrz8RxdPZA pair of effectors encoded on a conditionally dispensable chromosome of Fusarium oxysporum suppress host-specific immunity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02245-4
Evolution
70-Year-Old Coffee-Killing Fungus Brought Back to Life by Scientists – Here's Why
https://scitechdaily.com/70-year-old-coffee-killing-fungus-brought-back-to-life-by-scientists-heres-why/
Fungal Ecology
Adriana L. Romero-Olivares Tracks Fungi’s Response to Climate Change
https://www.the-scientist.com/scientist-to-watch/adriana-l-romero-olivares-tracks-fungi-s-response-to-climate-change-68817
Microbiome
ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880921002632Why does corn grow so well? Scientists think soil microbes play a role
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/why-does-corn-grow-so-well-scientists-think-soil-microbes-play-roleGut microbiome heritability is nearly universal but environmentally contingent
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6551/181The plant NADPH oxidase RBOHD is required for microbiota homeostasis in leaves - Nature Microbiology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00929-5Holo-omics for deciphering plant-microbiome interactions - Microbiome
https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-021-01014-zThe plant NADPH oxidase RBOHD is required for microbiota homeostasis in leaves
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00929-5Healthy soils for healthy plants for healthy humans: How beneficial microbes in the soil, food and gut are interconnected and how agriculture can contribute to human health: EMBO reports: Vol 21, No 8
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embr.202051069The Future of Food: Why Microbiome Innovation Needs to Be on the Agenda
https://institute.global/policy/future-food-why-microbiome-innovation-needs-be-agendaHow do plants balance microbial friends and foes?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/aps-hdp061021.phpAn ancient antimicrobial protein co-opted by a fungal plant pathogen for in planta mycobiome manipulation
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.10.447847v1Host microbiota can facilitate pathogen infection
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009514Coordination of microbe–host homeostasis by crosstalk with plant innate immunity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-021-00920-2
Symbiosis
A microbial eukaryote with a unique combination of purple bacteria and green algae as endosymbionts
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/24/eabg4102Lipid exchanges drove the evolution of mutualism during plant terrestrialization
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6544/864