The importance of understanding the biology of the mycotoxigenic fungus Fusarium
verticillioides and its various microbial and plant host interactions is critical given its threat to …

During cell division, eukaryotic cells must faithfully pass on their genetic material to the next
generation during mitosis. It has long been known that lower eukaryotes and higher …

For the first time in over 20 years, a comprehensive collection of photographs and
descriptions of species in the fungal genus Fusarium is available. This laboratory manual …

Rice blast disease is caused by the hemibiotrophic fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, which
invades living plant cells using intracellular invasive hyphae (IH) that grow from one cell to …

As in other eukaryotes, protein kinases play major regulatory roles in filamentous fungi.
Although the genomes of many plant pathogenic fungi have been sequenced, systematic …

Biotrophic invasive hyphae (IH) of the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae secrete effectors to
alter host defenses and cellular processes as they successively invade living rice (Oryza …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

We report the construction of a versatile GFP expression plasmid and demonstrate its utility
in Neurospora crassa. To visualize nuclei and microtubules, we generated carboxy-terminal …

Surface recognition and penetration are among the most critical plant infection processes in
foliar pathogens. In Magnaporthe oryzae, the Pmk1 MAP kinase regulates appressorium …

ABSTRACT A mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase gene, PMK1, is known to regulate
appressorium formation and infectious hyphal growth in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe …