Acute Oak Decline (AOD) is a decline-disease currently spreading in Britain, threatening oak trees. Here, we analyze and compare the proteomes of inner bark tissue sampled from oak stems of trees symptomatic with AOD and non-symptomatic trees.
The pathological interaction between oak trees and Phytophthora cinnamomi has implications in the cork oak decline observed over the last decades in the Iberian Peninsula. During host colonization, the phytopathogen secretes effector molecules like elicitins to increase disease effectiveness. The o...
Biotic and abiotic stresses are predicted to be the main drivers of forest tree decline and mortality in a climatic change scenario. It occurs, for example, in Quercus ilex, the main component of the Mediterranean forest, becoming a major environmental, economic and social concern. The decline syndr...