Fungal pathogens pose significant threats to plant health by secreting effectors that manipulate plant-host defences. However, identifying effector proteins remains challenging, in part because they lack common sequence motifs. Here, we introduce Fungtion (Fungal effector prediction), a toolkit leveraging a hybrid framework to accurately predict and visualize fungal effectors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObesity is a rapidly growing public health threat in China. Improvement of dietary knowledge may potentially reduce the risk of obesity and being overweight. However, existing studies focus on measuring the mean effects of nutrition knowledge on body mass index (BMI).
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