Plant BiologybioRxiv
ExoRNAi exposes contrasting roles for sugar exudation in host-finding by plant pathogens
Neil D Warnock, Leonie Wilson, Juan V Canet-Perez…·Johnathan J Dalzell
The paper uses RNAi to knock down sugar transporter genes in tomato roots, showing reduced glucose and fructose exudation affects infectivity of a generalist nematode but not a specialist one.
DOI 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.02.005