Volume 34, No 4, Apr 2024

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 34 Issue 4, April 2024: 279-280

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Flooding plant apoplast through water and solute channels

Jianping Zhang¹ , Daowen Wang^2,* , Zheng Qing Fu^3,*

¹Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, Australia
²State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Agronomy, and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
³Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
Correspondence: Daowen Wang(dwwang@henau.edu.cn)Zheng Qing Fu(zfu@mailbox.sc.edu)

Inducing water-soaking symptoms is a key early step during the pathogenesis of many fungal, oomycete, and bacterial pathogens. A recent publication in Nature by Nomura et al. showed that the conserved AvrE-family type III effectors from several Gram-negative plant bacterial pathogens function as water and solute channels in the plant cell membrane, creating an aqueous nutrient-rich apoplastic space for the multiplication of these bacterial pathogens.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-023-00898-w

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