Plant pathogenic fungi

G Doehlemann, B Ökmen, W Zhu… - The fungal …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fungi have developed a plethora of strategies to colonize plants, and these interactions
result in a broad spectrum of outcomes ranging from beneficial interactions to death of the …

How a fungus shapes biotechnology: 100 years of Aspergillus niger research

TC Cairns, C Nai, V Meyer - Fungal biology and biotechnology, 2018‏ - Springer
In 1917, a food chemist named James Currie made a promising discovery: any strain of the
filamentous mould Aspergillus niger would produce high concentrations of citric acid when …

A genomic compendium of cultivated human gut fungi characterizes the gut mycobiome and its relevance to common diseases

Q Yan, S Li, Q Yan, X Huo, C Wang, X Wang, Y Sun… - Cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
The gut fungal community represents an essential element of human health, yet its
functional and metabolic potential remains insufficiently elucidated, largely due to the limited …

Unconventionally secreted effectors of two filamentous pathogens target plant salicylate biosynthesis

T Liu, T Song, X Zhang, H Yuan, L Su, W Li, J Xu… - Nature …, 2014‏ - nature.com
Plant diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes pose an increasing threat to food security
and ecosystem health worldwide. These filamentous pathogens, while taxonomically …

Under pressure: investigating the biology of plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae

RA Wilson, NJ Talbot - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009‏ - nature.com
The filamentous fungus Magnaporthe oryzae causes rice blast, the most serious disease of
cultivated rice. Cellular differentiation of M. oryzae forms an infection structure called the …

Plant immunity to necrotrophs

T Mengiste - Annual review of phytopathology, 2012‏ - annualreviews.org
Plants inhabit environments crowded with infectious microbes that pose constant threats to
their survival. Necrotrophic pathogens are notorious for their aggressive and wide-ranging …

Périgord black truffle genome uncovers evolutionary origins and mechanisms of symbiosis

F Martin, A Kohler, C Murat, R Balestrini, PM Coutinho… - Nature, 2010‏ - nature.com
The Périgord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum Vittad.) and the Piedmont white truffle
dominate today's truffle market,. The hypogeous fruiting body of T. melanosporum is a …

Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses reveal the hemibiotrophic stage shift of Colletotrichum fungi

P Gan, K Ikeda, H Irieda, M Narusaka… - New …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hemibiotrophic fungal plant pathogens represent a group of agronomically significant
disease‐causing agents that grow first on living tissue and then cause host death in later …

Comparative genomics yields insights into niche adaptation of plant vascular wilt pathogens

SJ Klosterman, KV Subbarao, S Kang… - PLoS …, 2011‏ - journals.plos.org
The vascular wilt fungi Verticillium dahliae and V. albo-atrum infect over 200 plant species,
causing billions of dollars in annual crop losses. The characteristic wilt symptoms are a …

Effector diversification within compartments of the Leptosphaeria maculans genome affected by Repeat-Induced Point mutations

T Rouxel, J Grandaubert, JK Hane, C Hoede… - Nature …, 2011‏ - nature.com
Fungi are of primary ecological, biotechnological and economic importance. Many
fundamental biological processes that are shared by animals and fungi are studied in fungi …