Fungi interact with plants in various ways, with each interaction giving rise to different
alterations in both partners. While fungal pathogens have detrimental effects on plant …

Fungi cause severe diseases on a broad range of crop and ornamental plants, leading to
significant economical losses. Plant pathogenic fungi exhibit a huge variability in their mode …

Background The white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a devastating necrotrophic
plant pathogen with a remarkably broad host range. The interaction of necrotrophs with their …

Background Powdery mildews are biotrophic pathogenic fungi infecting a number of
economically important plants. The grass powdery mildew, Blumeria graminis, has become …

Host‐selective toxins (HSTs) are effectors produced by some necrotrophic pathogenic fungi
that typically confer the ability to cause disease. Often, diseases caused by pathogens that …

The term virulence has a conflicting history among plant pathologists. Here we define
virulence as the degree of damage caused to a host by parasite infection, assumed to be …

Many necrotrophic plant pathogenic fungi belonging to the class of Dothideomycetes
produce phytotoxic metabolites and peptides that are usually required for pathogenicity …

Most known examples of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between eukaryotes are ancient.
These events are identified primarily using phylogenetic methods on coding regions alone …

Fortunately, no fungus can cause disease on all plant species, and although some plant-
pathogenic fungi have quite a broad host range, most are highly limited in the range of plant …

Gliotoxin is a nonribosomal peptide produced by Aspergillus fumigatus. This compound has
been proposed as an A. fumigatus virulence factor due to its cytotoxic, genotoxic, and …