Adaptive Evolution among Plant Pathogenic Oomycte RXLR Effector Genes

Abstract

Oomycete plant pathogens deliver effector proteins inside host cells, which enable parasitic colonization by modulating plant defense signaling pathways. Effectors are defined by the conserved motif RXLR (Arg, any amino acid, Leu, Arg), which is implicated in delivery of the effector into host cells