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However, the rapid evolutionary diversification of effectors often obscures conserved motifs, limiting the effectiveness of conventional computational approaches and making experimental prioritization challenging. To address this, we developed DeepEffector, a high-precision predictor for fungal and oomycete effector identification. DeepEffector leverages protein language models (ProtT5 for fungi and esm1b for oomycetes) to generate functional semantic embeddings, integrates G-SMOTE to mitigate class imbalance in the latent feature space, and employs a hybrid multihead self-attention and convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to capture both global contextual dependencies and local functional patterns. Benchmarking on independent test sets showed that DeepEffector outperformed state-of-the-art tools, providing a reliable high-confidence candidate list to reduce downstream experimental screening. Its practical utility was further evaluated in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense TR4, the causal agent of destructive banana Fusarium wilt. Four prioritized candidates were experimentally confirmed to be secreted proteins, localized to host-relevant subcellular compartments, and significantly suppress Bax-induced programmed cell death, supporting their potential roles as immune-suppressing effector candidates. 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