Knowing the dancer from the dance: R-gene products and their interactions with other proteins from host and pathogen

Cloning of plant disease resistance genes is now commonplace in model plant s. Recent attention has turned to how the proteins that they encode functio n biochemically to recognize their cognate Avirulence protein and to initia te the disease-resistance response. In addition. attention has turned to ho w the Avirulence proteins of pathogens might alter susceptible hosts for th e benefit of the pathogen, and what plant proteins might be required for th at process.