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Fungal development of the plant pathogen Ustilago maydis
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 59–77, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00296.x
Published: 01 January 2012
... for uniparental mitochondrial inheritance are encoded at the a2 mating-type locus; (4) microtubule-dependent mRNA transport is important in determining the axis of polarity; and (5) a battery of fungal effectors encoded in gene clusters is crucial for plant infection. Importantly, most processes...
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Host-selective toxins produced by the plant pathogenic fungus Alternaria alternata
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 44–66, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2012.00350.x
Published: 01 January 2013
...) produced by fungal plant pathogens are generally low-molecular-weight secondary metabolites with a diverse range of structures that function as effectors controlling pathogenicity or virulence in certain plant–pathogen interactions. There are now seven known diseases caused by Alternaria alternata...
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Horizontal gene and chromosome transfer in plant pathogenic fungi affecting host range
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 542–554, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00263.x
Published: 01 May 2011
..., respectively. The mechanisms HGT and HCT and their impact on potential emergence of fungal plant pathogens adapted to new host plants will be discussed. conditionally dispensable chromosome interspecies hybridization anastomosis toxins pathogenicity virulence Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is defined...
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Silent control: microbial plant pathogens evade host immunity without coding sequence changes
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 45, Issue 4, July 2021, fuab002, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuab002
Published: 13 January 2021
... in a short time (Overby et al. 2010 ; Overby and Weber 2011 ). Plant pathogens also deploy masking tricks. Extracellular plant receptors recognize fragments of chitin, a major component of the fungal cell wall, released during infection (Sánchez-Vallet, Mesters and Thomma 2015 ; Gong, Wang and Li...
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Fungal primary and opportunistic pathogens: an ecological perspective
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 48, Issue 5, September 2024, fuae022, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuae022
Published: 08 August 2024
... Virus-positive population. Figure 2. Diagram of preferred habitats (striped areas) of some fungal examples. Aspergillus fumigatus on human and plant debris (facultative pathogen), Emmonsia crescens with preferred rodent hosts; Microsporum canis with preferred feline host...
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Friends or foes? Emerging insights from fungal interactions with plants
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 40, Issue 2, March 2016, Pages 182–207, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv045
Published: 21 November 2015
... to deeper insights (Venturini and Delledonne 2015 ). Some fungal species developed further, breaking the fine balance of mutual benefit to become plant pathogens classified as biotrophs, hemibiotrophs and necrotrophs (Fig. 1 ), each having different modes of interaction with their host plants (Gardiner...
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The rhizosphere microbiome: significance of plant beneficial, plant pathogenic, and human pathogenic microorganisms
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 37, Issue 5, September 2013, Pages 634–663, https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6976.12028
Published: 01 September 2013
... reductions in the production of food, feed, fiber, and fuel crops (Fig. 2 ). Two main groups of soilborne plant pathogens are the nematodes and the fungi, including the true fungi and the fungal-like oomycetes. In temperate climates, plant pathogenic fungi, oomycetes, and nematodes are agronomically more...
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Manipulation of plant metabolism by pathogen effectors: more than just food
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 47, Issue 2, March 2023, fuad007, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuad007
Published: 25 February 2023
... feeding . CR Biol . 2010 ; 333 : 504 – 15 . Divon HH , Fluhr R . Nutrition acquisition strategies during fungal infection of plants . FEMS Microbiol Lett . 2007 ; 266 : 65 – 74 . Djamei A , Schipper K , Rabe F et al. Metabolic priming by a secreted...
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Phytotoxic secondary metabolites and peptides produced by plant pathogenic Dothideomycete fungi
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 67–93, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2012.00349.x
Published: 01 January 2013
... Structures of SM HSTs produced by fungal species of Dothideomycetes. Table 1 Biological activities of SM and proteinaceous HSTs produced by species of Dothideomycetes Toxin Species Chemical structure Mode of action Plant target HC-toxin Cochliobolus carbonum...
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Microbiota manipulation through the secretion of effector proteins is fundamental to the wealth of lifestyles in the fungal kingdom
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 46, Issue 5, September 2022, fuac022, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuac022
Published: 23 May 2022
... Graphical Abstract Figure. Recent findings show that fungal pathogens secrete effector molecules to manipulate the host microbiota to stimulate disease development; here, we argue that fungal effector-mediated microbiota manipulation occurs beyond plant pathogens, is likely widespread in the fungal ...
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The contribution of DNA repair pathways to genome editing and evolution in filamentous pathogens
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 46, Issue 6, November 2022, fuac035, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuac035
Published: 09 July 2022
... at the targeted locus, which is a type of DNA repair profile that has been linked to C-NHEJ (Schimmel et al. 2017 , Hao and Su 2019 ). Our lab recently reported detailed characterization of DNA repair events following Cas12a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) editing in the fungal plant pathogen, M. oryzae...
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Signalling in plant–fungal pathogen interaction. The first defence line of ...
Published: 21 November 2015
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Signalling in plant–fungal pathogen interaction. The first defence line of plants is based on receptor proteins located in the plasma membrane. PRRs recognize conserved microbial structures (MAMPs/PAMPs) which lead to activation of PTI via calcium signalling and MAPK cascades. Pathogens interfere
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Fungal dimorphism: the switch from hyphae to yeast is a specialized morphogenetic adaptation allowing colonization of a host
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 39, Issue 6, November 2015, Pages 797–811, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv035
Published: 07 August 2015
... have been investigated extensively in the non-dimorphic Neurospora crassa and in fungal pathogens of plants (Ochiai et al. 2001 ; Yoshimi, Tsuda and Tanaka 2004 ; Motoyama et al. 2005 ; Viaud et al. 2006 ; Rispail and Di Pietro 2010 ; Zhang et al. 2010...
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Exploiting the potential of insects for in vivo pathogenicity testing of microbial pathogens
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2004, Pages 101–112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsre.2003.09.002
Published: 01 February 2004
... of the Greater Wax Moth Galleria mellonella have been used to evaluate the virulence of a range of bacterial and fungal pathogens and a correlation with the virulence of these microbes in mice has been established. This review highlights the similarities of the vertebrate and insect innate immune...
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The battle for chitin recognition in plant-microbe interactions
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 39, Issue 2, March 2015, Pages 171–183, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuu003
Published: 25 February 2015
...; Graphical Abstract Figure. Fungal cell wall chitin is a well-known inducer of immune responses in plants, so plant-associated fungi that include pathogens as well as endophytes and mutualists evidently evolved various strategies to overcome detection and activation of immune responses, including ...
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Conserved cAMP signaling cascades regulate fungal development and virulence
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 25, Issue 3, May 2001, Pages 349–364, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2001.tb00582.x
Published: 01 May 2001
... Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and differentiation and virulence in the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans and the plant pathogen Ustilago maydis. We also present examples of interaction between the cAMP and MAP kinase signaling...
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Fungal apoptosis: function, genes and gene function
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 33, Issue 5, September 2009, Pages 833–854, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00180.x
Published: 01 September 2009
... the fusion cell ( Glass & Kaneko, 2003 ). In many ways, HI resembles the well-known hypersensitive response (HR) in plants, during which localized apoptotic-like cell death prevents pathogen spreading ( Lam et al., 2001 ). Both HI and HR are accompanied by classical apoptotic markers and have...
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Genetic interaction analysis in microbial pathogens: unravelling networks of pathogenesis, antimicrobial susceptibility and host interactions
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 2021, fuaa055, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuaa055
Published: 20 October 2020
... interactions between genes, GI analysis can help uncover novel combination strategies to target microbial pathogens. In this review, we will discuss recent advances in GI analysis in relation to their applications in diverse microbial pathogens, including bacterial and fungal species. We will overview...
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Fungal nucleobase transporters
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 31, Issue 6, November 2007, Pages 657–675, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00083.x
Published: 01 November 2007
... et al. , 2006 ; S. Goudela, U. Reichard, G. Diallinas & S. Amillis, unpublished data). Fungal proteins share up to 35% and 44% identity with bacterial and plant homologues, respectively, while identities among fungi vary from 45% to 75%. AzgA-like proteins are 423–594 amino acids long...
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Living in a fungal world: impact of fungi on soil bacterial niche development
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 29, Issue 4, September 2005, Pages 795–811, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsre.2004.11.005
Published: 01 September 2005
... for simple plant-derived substrates and have developed antagonistic strategies. For more recalcitrant organic substrates, e.g. cellulose and lignin, both competitive and mutualistic strategies appear to have evolved. In the second part of the review, bacterial niches with respect to the utilization of fungal...
