Morphological changes in response to environmental stresses in the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

C Sardinha Francisco, X Ma… - Scientific …, 2019 - research-collection.ethz.ch
During their life cycles, pathogens have to adapt to many biotic and abiotic environmental
stresses to maximize their overall fitness. Morphological transitions are one of the least …

Morphological changes in response to environmental stresses in the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

CS Francisco, X Ma, MM Zwyssig, BA McDonald… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
During their life cycles, pathogens have to adapt to many biotic and abiotic environmental
stresses to maximize their overall fitness. Morphological transitions are one of the least …

Differential morphological changes in response to environmental stimuli in a fungal plant pathogen

CS Francisco, X Ma, MM Zwyssig, BA McDonald… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
During their life cycles, pathogens have to adapt to many biotic and abiotic environmental
stresses to maximize their overall fitness. Morphological transitions are one of the least …

[HTML][HTML] A transcription factor and a phosphatase regulate temperature-dependent morphogenesis in the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

CS Francisco, BA McDonald… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Naturally fluctuating temperatures provide a constant environmental stress that requires
adaptation. Some fungal pathogens respond to heat stress by producing new morphotypes …

Zymoseptoria tritici white-collar complex integrates light, temperature and plant cues to initiate dimorphism and pathogenesis

S Kilaru, E Fantozzi, S Cannon, M Schuster… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transitioning from spores to hyphae is pivotal to host invasion by the plant pathogenic
fungus Zymoseptoria tritici. This dimorphic switch can be initiated by high temperature in …

Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment

WT Kay, P O'Neill, SJ Gurr, HN Fones - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The fungal phytopathogen Zymoseptoria tritici}, causal agent of the economically damaging
Septoria tritici blotch of wheat, is different from most foliar fungal pathogens in that its …

Two Novel Dimorphism-Related Virulence Factors of Zymoseptoria tritici Identified Using Agrobacterium-Mediated Insertional Mutagenesis

A Yemelin, A Brauchler, S Jacob, AJ Foster… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Diseases caused by dimorphic phytopathogenic and systemic dimorphic fungi have
markedly increased in prevalence in the last decades, and understanding the morphogenic …

Extremely flexible infection programs in a fungal plant pathogen

J Haueisen, M Möller, CJ Eschenbrenner… - bioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Filamentous plant pathogens exhibit extraordinary levels of genomic variability that is
proposed to facilitate rapid adaptation to changing host environments. However, the impact …

Feeling the Heat: Investigating the dual assault of Zymoseptoria tritici and Heat Stress on Wheat (Triticum aestivum)

HR Blyth, A Zarsav, D Smith… - 32nd Fungal …, 2024 - repository.rothamsted.ac.uk
As a result of climate change, field conditions are increasingly challenging for crops.
Research has shown how elevated temperatures affect crop performance, yet the impact of …

Fungal plant pathogen “mutagenomics” reveals tagged and untagged mutations in Zymoseptoria tritici and identifies SSK2 as key morphogenesis and stress …

HR Blyth, D Smith, R King, C Bayon… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
“Mutagenomics” is the combination of random mutagenesis, phenotypic screening, and
whole-genome re-sequencing to uncover all tagged and untagged mutations linked with …