Killing softly: a roadmap of Botrytis cinerea pathogenicity

K Bi, Y Liang, T Mengiste, A Sharon - Trends in plant science, 2023 - cell.com
Botrytis cinerea, a widespread plant pathogen with a necrotrophic lifestyle, causes gray
mold disease in many crops. Massive secretion of enzymes and toxins was long considered …

Grapevine gray mold disease: infection, defense and management

MU Rahman, X Liu, X Wang, B Fan - Horticulture Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.,) is among the world's leading fruit crops. The production
of grapes is severely affected by many diseases including gray mold, caused by the …

BcXYG1, a Secreted Xyloglucanase from Botrytis cinerea, Triggers Both Cell Death and Plant Immune Responses

W Zhu, M Ronen, Y Gur, A Minz-Dub, G Masrati… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In search of Botrytis cinerea cell death-inducing proteins, we found a xyloglucanase
(BcXYG1) that induced strong necrosis and a resistance response in dicot plants …

Botrytis cinerea

T Chen, Z Zhang, Y Chen, B Li… - Current biology …, 2023 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Botrytis cinerea Botrytis cinerea Curr Biol. 2023 Jun 5;33(11):R460-R462. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.058.
Authors Tong Chen 1 , Zhanquan Zhang 1 , Yong Chen 1 , Boqiang Li 1 , Shi** Tian 2 …

The Botrytis cinerea Crh1 transglycosylase is a cytoplasmic effector triggering plant cell death and defense response

K Bi, L Scalschi, N Jaiswal, T Mengiste, R Fried… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Crh proteins catalyze crosslinking of chitin and glucan polymers in fungal cell walls. Here,
we show that the BcCrh1 protein from the phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea acts as a …

Unravelling the interplay of nitrogen nutrition and the Botrytis cinerea pectin lyase BcPNL1 in modulating Arabidopsis thaliana susceptibility

A Davière, A Voxeur, S Jolivet, L Lelas… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
In this study, we investigated the interplay between nitrogen nutrition and the pectin
degradation dynamics during Arabidopsis and Botrytis interaction. Our findings revealed that …

Botrytis cinerea BcCDI1 protein triggers both plant cell death and immune response

W Zhu, H Dong, R Xu, J You, D Yan, C ** of Botrytis disease development
L Groenenberg, M Duhamel, Y Bai, MGM Aarts… - Trends in Plant …, 2025 - cell.com
Botrytis cinerea is an important generalist fungal plant pathogen that causes great economic
losses. Conventional detection methods to identify B. cinerea infections rely on visual …