A fungal pathogen, Rosellinia necatrix, that attacks plants, produces antimicrobials to combat the plant-hosted bacteria that would otherwise inhibit its infection success

A fungal pathogen, Rosellinia necatrix, that attacks plants, produces antimicrobials to combat the plant-hosted bacteria that would otherwise inhibit its infection success. 

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Article Title: The soil-borne white root rot pathogen Rosellinia necatrix expresses antimicrobial proteins during host colonization

Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011866  

Author Countries: Germany, Spain, the Netherlands

Funding: EACC and DET acknowledge receipt of PhD fellowships from CONACyT, Mexico. ALM is holder of a postdoctoral research fellow funded by the 'Fundación Ramón Areces'. BPHJT acknowledges funding by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the framework of an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship endowed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and is furthermore supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2048/1 – Project ID: 390686111. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.