Mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling in plant-interacting fungi: distinct messages from conserved messengers

LP Hamel, MC Nicole, S Duplessis, BE Ellis - The Plant Cell, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are evolutionarily conserved proteins that
function as key signal transduction components in fungi, plants, and mammals. During …

Magnaporthe as a model for understanding host-pathogen interactions

DJ Ebbole - Annu. Rev. Phytopathol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
The rice blast pathosystem has been the subject of intense interest in part because of the
importance of the disease to world agriculture, but also because both Magnaporthe oryzae …

The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea

RA Dean, NJ Talbot, DJ Ebbole, ML Farman… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Magnaporthe grisea is the most destructive pathogen of rice worldwide and the principal
model organism for elucidating the molecular basis of fungal disease of plants. Here, we …

Interaction Transcriptome Analysis Identifies Magnaporthe oryzae BAS1-4 as Biotrophy-Associated Secreted Proteins in Rice Blast Disease

G Mosquera, MC Giraldo, CH Khang… - The Plant …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Review of fungal chitinases

L Duo-Chuan - Mycopathologia, 2006 - Springer
Chitin is the second most abundant organic and renewable source in nature, after cellulose.
Chitinases are chitin-degrading enzymes. Chitinases have important biophysiological …

Genomics of the fungal kingdom: insights into eukaryotic biology

JE Galagan, MR Henn, LJ Ma, CA Cuomo… - Genome …, 2005 - genome.cshlp.org
The last decade has witnessed a revolution in the genomics of the fungal kingdom. Since
the sequencing of the first fungus in 1996, the number of available fungal genome …

Systematic Analysis of Zn2Cys6 Transcription Factors Required for Development and Pathogenicity by High-Throughput Gene Knockout in the Rice Blast Fungus

J Lu, H Cao, L Zhang, P Huang, F Lin - PLoS Pathogens, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Because of great challenges and workload in deleting genes on a large scale, the functions
of most genes in pathogenic fungi are still unclear. In this study, we developed a high …

Alternative splicing: current perspectives

E Kim, A Goren, G Ast - Bioessays, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Alternative splicing is a well‐characterized mechanism by which multiple transcripts are
generated from a single mRNA precursor. By allowing production of several protein isoforms …

Stress-induced changes in alternative splicing landscape in rice: functional significance of splice isoforms in stress tolerance

SA Ganie, ASN Reddy - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Environmental stresses adversely affect rice production. Understanding
the molecular responses of rice to these stresses will have an enormous impact on the …

A complete survey of Trichoderma chitinases reveals three distinct subgroups of family 18 chitinases

V Seidl, B Huemer, B Seiboth, CP Kubicek - The FEBS journal, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide analysis of chitinase genes in the Hypocrea jecorina (anamorph:
Trichoderma reesei) genome database revealed the presence of 18 ORFs encoding …