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The Secretome of Plant-Associated Fungi and Oomycetes

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Plant Relationships

Part of the book series: The Mycota ((MYCOTA,volume 5))

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The secretome of plant-associated fungi and oomycetes has been the subject of much research since the publication about 10 years ago of the first edition of “The Mycota: Plant Relationships”. The concept that filamentous microbes require secreted proteins to alter their environment and the organisms they colonize is not particularly novel, but technology has matured to the point where it is nowadays possible to generate catalogs of the complete set of secreted proteins (the secretome) for a given organism. This has been driven by the coming of age of genome sequencing coupled with robust computational predictions of secretion signals. This chapter surveys some of the key concepts and findings that recently emerged from the study of the fungal and oomycete secretome, with an emphasis on effector proteins.

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Kamoun, S. (2009). The Secretome of Plant-Associated Fungi and Oomycetes. In: Deising, H.B. (eds) Plant Relationships. The Mycota, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87407-2_9

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