Plants rely on a two-tiered innate immune system to detect and fend off microorganism infections. This system comprises cell-surface pattern recogniti…

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My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re…

Understanding how plant pathogens modulate the rhizosphere microbiota is essential to integrated disease management. Here, we assessed the compositional and functional shifts in the avocado rhizospher...

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 28 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01248-wOomycete plant pathogens are a serious global threat to crop production and food security. This Review outlines oomycete biology, diversity and lifestyle, discusses the disease cycle in plants, highlights pathogenicity mechanisms and the impact of oomycete plant pathogens, and considers emerging strategies for disease management.

Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto

This document provides the conclusions of the pest survey card that was prepared in the context of the EFSA mandate on plant pest surveillance (M‐2020‐0114) at the request of the European Commission. ...

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Forest decline is a complex process rarely attributable to a single cause. Nevertheless, when widespread tree mortality occurs, management responses often focus on one primary agent. Our recent study ...

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