Phytophthora sojae, a notorious oomycete pathogen of soybeans, secretes virulence effectors to infect the target hos. Understanding the biological functions of virulence effectors is the key step to reveal the mechanism of oomycete pathogenicity to hosts and control the disease. This project will genome-wide identify virulence effectors in P. sojae with the state-of-the-art bioinformatics methods, and these virulence effectors are candidate targets of pathogen- resistant methods.

The PI was supported by the Nebraska Soybean Board to study the molecular mimicry between bacterial pathogenic effectors and soybean proteins, and functions of bacterial effectors were discovered by our designed...