Starving the enemy: how plant and microbe compete for sugar on the border

As the primary energy source for a plant host and microbe to sustain life, sugar is generally exported by Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters (SWEETs) extracellular spaces or apoplast. There, microbes compete hexose, sucrose, other important nutrients. The microbial monosaccharide transporters (MSTs) sucrose (SUTs) play key role in “evolutionary arms race”. result of this competition hinges on proportion distribution between microbes. In some plants (such as Arabidopsis , corn, rice) their interacting pathogens, responsible have been identified. However, regulatory mechanisms transporters, especially require further investigation. Here, that are pathogen identified transport briefly analyzed. These data great significance increase improvement yield.