FIGURE 1.

A timeline showing the progression of filamentous plant pathogen effector prediction and identification from the pregenomic era to the present day. The first effectors identified using these methods are included as well as the elicitins used for homology‐based searches. Increasingly, pangenome data are used to predict core and novel candidates but as yet none have been characterized using this technique. For a recent review of pangenomics see Golicz et al. (2019). Details on individual effectors named are given in Table 1.