A sweet story from Phytophthora-soybean interaction

Yezhou Hu; Xiu-Fang Xin

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2023.09.004

A sweet story from Phytophthora-soybean interaction

Trends Microbiol. 2023 Nov;31(11):1093-1095. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.09.004. Epub 2023 Sep 26.

Authors

Yezhou Hu¹, Xiu-Fang Xin²

Affiliations

¹ National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
² National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and CAS John Innes Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China. Electronic address: xinxf@sippe.ac.cn.

PMID: 37770374
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.09.004

Abstract

Phytopathogenic microbes obtain nutrients from host plants to support their growth and metabolism. A recent study by Zhu et al. revealed that the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora sojae upregulates the activity of soybean trehalose 6-phosphate synthase 6 (GmTPS6) and increases trehalose accumulation (through an effector PsAvh413) to promote nutritional gain.

Keywords: Phytophthora sojae; effector; trehalose; trehalose 6-phosphate synthase.