The European black pine (Pinus nigra J. F. Arnold) is a conifer of high economic and ecological importance, and a potential alternative to several forest tree species in Central Europe in response to global climate warming. Unfortunately, the fungus Diplodia sapinea (Fr.) Fuckel is causing severe...
• Plant species diversity enhances community productivity, but how plant diversity impacts the metabolome of individual plants and the underlying eco-evolutionary processes remains unclear. This study investigated how plant species diversity and selection for growing in different diversity enviro...
Rust fungi are plant pathogens that cause epidemics which threatens the production of many important plant species, such as wheat, soy, coffee and poplar. Melampsora larici-populina (Mlp) causes the poplar rust and encodes at least 1184 candidate effectors (CEs), however their functions are poorl...