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. 2018 Feb 15;30(3):528–542. doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.00238

Table 1. Examples of Transformable Plant Pathogens, Secretion Systems, and Their Hosts.

Pathogen (Reference for Transformation) Kingdom Secretion System Host
Agrobacterium tumefaciens Bacterium Type IV (Vergunst et al., 2005) and type VI (Ma et al., 2014) secretion system Variety of monocots and dicots
Botrytis cinerea (Noda et al., 2007) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (ten Have et al., 1998) Over 200 different species
Cladosporium fulvum (Harling et al., 1988) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (Joosten et al., 1994) S. lycopersicum
Colletotrichum graminicola (Amnuaykanjanasin and Epstein, 2006) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (Vargas et al., 2016) Z. mays, Triticum aestivum
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp Lycopersici (Kistler and Benny, 1988) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (Rep et al., 2005) S. lycopersicum
Leptosphaeria maculans (Gout et al., 2006) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (Gout et al., 2006) Brassica napus
Magnaporthe oryzae (Talbot et al., 1993) Fungi Signal peptide dependent and biotrophic interfacial complex (Giraldo et al., 2013) O. sativa, T. aestivum, Hordeum vulgare
Phytophthora infestans (Avrova et al., 2008) Oomycete Signal peptide dependent and BFA-insensitive (Wang et al., 2017) Solanum tuberosum, S. lycopersicum, other Solanaceae
Pseudomonas syringae pathovars (Wendt-Potthoff et al., 1992) Bacterium Type III secretion system (He et al., 1993) and type VI (Haapalainen et al., 2012) Variety of monocots and dicots
Sporisorium reilianum (Schulz et al., 1990) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (Schirawski et al., 2010) Z. mays, Sorghum bicolor
U. hordei (Ali and Bakkeren, 2011) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (Doehlemann et al., 2009) H. vulgare
U. maydis (Kämper et al., 2006) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (Kämper et al., 2006), unconventional secretion (Stock et al., 2012) Z. mays
Verticillium dahlia (Wang et al., 2016) Fungi Signal peptide dependent and unconventional secretion (Chen et al., 2016) Medicago sativus
Cynara scolymus
Capsicum annuum
Brassica oleracea var. capitate
Brassica oleracea var. botrytis
Gossypium hirsutum
Solanum melongena
Lactuca sativa
S. tuberosum
Citrullus vulgaris Schrader
Zymoseptoria tritici (Zwiers and De Waard, 2001) Fungi Signal peptide dependent (Motteram et al., 2009) T. aestivum, T. turgidum ssp durum