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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Industrial hemp was historically important as a fiber crop in Pennsylvania prior to the U.S. federal regulation of marijuana in the early 20th century. The recent reestablishment of industrial hemp production, especially for cannabidiol extracts, necess...

Three recent studies, by Zhu et al.,Klymiuk et al., and Hu et al., identified paired nucleotide-binding site–leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) in w…

Hou et al. engineer plant endophytes to express effectors that trigger NLR-mediated ETI upon pathogen infection, regardless of whether pathogens carry recognizable effectors. The sentinel bacterium ma...