Advances in proteomic studies on the plant-pathogen interactions.

Plant-pathogen interactions have been performed extensively over the years from both the plant and pathogen viewpoints.An overall understanding of how plants and pathogens recognize each other,and differentiate to establish either a compatible or an incompatible relationship is crucial in this field of investigation.Defence-related genes and proteins expressed during phytopathogen infections have been successfully identified with proteomics approaches.This method also contributed to the investigation of molecular plant-pathogen interactions.In this paper,we provide an overview of plant-pathogen interactions,and highlight some functional proteins expressed during plant-bacterium,plant-fungus interactions reported in differential proteomic studies,and discuss these findings considering the advantages and limitations of current proteomic tool in plant-pathogen interactions.