The bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea (Pgl) causes the economically significant bacterial blight disease of
soybean. One of the primary pathogenic strategies that P. syringae uses is the injection of type III effector proteins into plant cells.
The majority of these proteins act to suppress plant immunity. The potential to elucidate their target proteins and sites of action
makes type III effectors important molecular tools for finding new components of innate immunity that may not be identifiable using
other approaches. Because many of these components are likely targeted by effectors from oomycete and fungal plant pathogens as
well, their identification may also...