Biodiversity and taxonomy of the pleomorphic genus Alternaria

DP Lawrence, F Rotondo, PB Gannibal - Mycological progress, 2016 - Springer
The genus Alternaria, alternarioid hyphomycetes, comprise a biologically, ecologically, and
morphologically rich group of fungi that has suffered from taxonomic flux for many years. The …

Host‐selective toxins, Ptr ToxA and Ptr ToxB, as necrotrophic effectors in the Pyrenophora tritici‐repentis–wheat interaction

LM Ciuffetti, VA Manning, I Pandelova… - New …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 pangenome of the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis reveals novel transposons associated with necrotrophic effectors ToxA and ToxB

R Gourlie, M McDonald, M Hafez, R Ortega-Polo… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Background In fungal plant pathogens, genome rearrangements followed by selection
pressure for adaptive traits have facilitated the co-evolutionary arms race between hosts and …

Phytotoxic secondary metabolites and peptides produced by plant pathogenic Dothideomycete fungi

I Stergiopoulos, J Collemare, R Mehrabi… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Many necrotrophic plant pathogenic fungi belonging to the class of Dothideomycetes
produce phytotoxic metabolites and peptides that are usually required for pathogenicity …

Genetics of tan spot resistance in wheat

JD Faris, Z Liu, SS Xu - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2013 - Springer
Tan spot is a devastating foliar disease of wheat caused by the necrotrophic fungal
pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. Much has been learned during the past two decades …

Host–parasite interactions in tan spot [Pyrenophora tritici-repentis] of wheat

SE Strelkov, L Lamari - Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Tan spot of wheat, caused by the ascomycete Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, is an
economically important disease in all the major wheat growing areas worldwide. Even …

Genome-wide association study of tan spot resistance in a hexaploid wheat collection from Kazakhstan

A Kokhmetova, D Sehgal, S Ali, M Atishova… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tan spot, caused by Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, is a serious foliar disease of wheat in
Kazakhstan with reported yield losses as high as 50% during epidemic years. Here, we …

Characterization of effector–target interactions in necrotrophic pathosystems reveals trends and variation in host manipulation

TL Friesen, JD Faris - Annual review of phytopathology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Great strides have been made in defining the details of the plant defense response involving
biotrophic fungal and bacterial pathogens. The groundwork for the current model was laid by …

Comparative Genomics of a Plant-Pathogenic Fungus, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, Reveals Transduplication and the Impact of Repeat Elements on Pathogenicity …

VA Manning, I Pandelova, B Dhillon… - G3: Genes …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Pyrenophora tritici-repentis is a necrotrophic fungus causal to the disease tan spot of wheat,
whose contribution to crop loss has increased significantly during the last few decades …

The Stagonospora nodorum‐wheat pathosystem involves multiple proteinaceous host‐selective toxins and corresponding host sensitivity genes that interact in an …

TL Friesen, SW Meinhardt, JD Faris - The Plant Journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We recently showed that the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum produces
proteinaceous host‐selective toxins (HSTs). These toxins include SnTox1 as well as …