Engineering the bacterial nutrition strategy to control plant diseases
This commentary on Wang et al. (2025) and Phan et al. (2025) highlights previously undiscovered Xanthomonas pathways for nutrition acquisition, explains how Xanthomonas bacteria hijack host molecular machinery through their effector proteins, and discusses how these studies can be used to develop new disease resistance mechanisms.
Authors
- Muhammad Naveed Aslam
- Muhammad Arslan Mahmood
- Shahid Mansoor
Institutions
- Australian National University (AU)
- Islamia University of Bahawalpur (PK)
- University of Karachi (PK)
- International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (PK)
- Center for Life Sciences (CN)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
- Published
- 2026-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70169
- Primary Topic
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00