title: A Covert Operation by a Plant Pathogen.
abstract: Phytopathogens have mastered the ability to evade plant innate immunity. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Zhou and colleagues (Li et al., 2016) uncover a strategy whereby a bacterial pathogen disables the plant immune system with such precision as to avoid triggering alarms that could potentially reveal its presence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. Electronic address: changj@science.oregonstate.edu.
authors.forename: Jeff H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
authors.forename: Javier F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Tabima
mesh_terms: D007113:Immunity, Innate; D057865:Plant Immunity; D010944:Plants / Q000276:immunology*