Plant Microbe Interaction 4.0

Dear Colleagues,

Microbes interact with plants at many different levels, and plants have learned to deal with or even exploit available microbes. While some microbes impact plant growth without entering the plant, many microbes do enter and spread in various plant tissues. In recent years, small proteinaecous effectors secreted by interacting microbes into plant tissues have emerged as a unifying theme. Effector discovery has been tremendously aided by the availability of next-generation sequencing techniques, which have also improved the analysis of plant–microbe interactions at a system-wide level. The system-wide approach also shows that plant growth and development is highly dependent on orchestrating the appropriate responses to different microbial interactors. The development and orchestration of plant responses have been refined through continuous selection pressure during plant and microbe evolution.

This Special Issue calls for reviews as well as original research articles that address the progress and current understanding of different aspects of the vast field of plant–microbe interactions.

Prof. Dr. Jan Schirawski
Prof. Dr. Michael H. Perlin
Guest Editors

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