title: Proteomics and plant disease: advances in combating a major threat to the global food supply.
abstract: The study of plant disease and immunity is benefiting tremendously from proteomics. Parallel streams of research from model systems, from pathogens in vitro and from the relevant pathogen-crop interactions themselves have begun to reveal a model of how plants succumb to invading pathogens and how they defend themselves without the benefit of a circulating immune system. In this review, we discuss the contribution of proteomics to these advances, drawing mainly on examples from crop-fungus interactions, from Arabidopsis-bacteria interactions, from elicitor-based model systems and from pathogen studies, to highlight also the important contribution of non-crop systems to advancing crop protection.
authors.affiliation: Agriculture and Agrifood Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. chris.rampitsch@agr.gc.ca.
authors.forename: Christof
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rampitsch
authors.forename: Natalia V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Bykova
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000821:virology; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D005523:Food Supply; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology; D040901:Proteomics