Oomycete,a group of filamentous plant pathogens,is responsible for most notorious crop diseases such as potato late blight that threaten the global food security.
Many RNA viruses subvert large number of host proteins to complete the viral life cycle,such as genomic RNA replication and viral movement,encapsidation and to interfere with host antiviral responses.
Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) is one of the Tobamovirus,which has spread fast in China,and has a narrow host range confined to the Cucurbitaceae.
Rice is not only a staple cereal but also a model monocotyledonous plant,for which much genomic and related expression sequence tag (EST) information is available.
Plant heat shock proteins (HSPs) are stimulated in response to a wide array of stress conditions and perform a fundamental role in protecting plants against abiotic stresses.