“…Plant pathogens can secrete effectors to promote host colonization through diverse molecular mechanisms. In B. cinerea , many predicted secreted proteins have been mined through comparative transcriptomics, secreted proteomics, or genomics approaches ( Zhu et al., 2017 ; Mousavi-Derazmahalleh et al., 2019 ; Valero-Jiménez et al., 2019 ; Denton-Giles et al., 2020 ; Zhang et al., 2020 ; Jeblick et al., 2023 ). However, due to the high functional redundancy of virulence factors, only a limited number of secreted proteins have been confirmed to have a true contribution to the pathogenesis of B. cinerea ( Brito et al., 2006 ; Frías et al., 2011 ; Frías et al., 2016 ; Zhu et al., 2017 ; Bi et al., 2022 ; Leisen et al., 2022 ).…”