Molecular interactions between smut fungi and their host plants

W Zuo, B Ökmen, JRL Depotter… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
… , genome analyses revealed similarities in the genomicrevealed four novel virulence factors
in U. hordei (81). In S. … between smut fungi indicates we can deconstruct the pathogenicity

Smut infection of perennial hosts: the genome and the transcriptome of the Brassicaceae smut fungus Thecaphora thlaspeos reveal functionally conserved and novel …

KJ Courville, L Frantzeskakis, S Gul, N Haeger… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Biotrophic fungal plant pathogens can balance their virulence and … While factors conferring
resistance to smut infection are of … Finally, genome comparison of the two T. thlaspeos strains …

Understanding adaptation, coevolution, host specialization, and mating system in castrating anther-smut fungi by combining population and comparative genomics

FE Hartmann, RC Rodríguez de la Vega… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
… A comparison of expression data in male and female S. latifolia individuals during fungal
infection revealed pathogen-… the genomic determinants of host specificity as well as the shared …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the Smuts: Common Cues, Signaling Pathways, and the Role of MAT in Dimorphic Switching and Pathogenesis

T Kijpornyongpan, MC Aime - Journal of Fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
… of (1) physiological factors affecting fungal dimorphism, (2) the mating system contributing to
… growth, hyphal production is limited compared to other dimorphic fungi [143,144]; our study. …

[HTML][HTML] … , a determinant of pathogenicity, functions as a key coordinator controlling global transcriptomic reprogramming during mating in sugarcane smut fungus

S Lu, H Zhang, F Guo, Y Yang, X Shen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… To probe the mechanisms by which SsUbc2 regulates mating and pathogenicity in the
fungus, we compared the transcriptomes of the wild types and the mutants in a time course …

Smut fungi as a stratagem to characterize rust effectors: opportunities and challenges

R Jaswal, S Rajarammohan, H Dubey… - World Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… Here, we propose the smut pathogen U. maydis as a … the pathogenicity in a smut pathogen,
given the differences in the … such as pathogenicity and virulence determinants can also shed …

Comparative genomics of rice false smut fungi Ustilaginoidea virens Uv-Gvt strain from India reveals genetic diversity and phylogenetic divergence

D Pramesh, MK Prasannakumar, KM Muniraju… - 3 Biotech, 2020 - Springer
… interacting genes compared to 359 and 520 … revealed a distinct phylogeny and an approximate
divergence time. Our study, report the genomic resource of rice false smut pathogen from …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide alternative splicing landscapes modulated by biotrophic sugarcane smut pathogen

R Bedre, S Irigoyen, PDC Schaker… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
… transcription factors, ROS scavenging, and defense signaling were alternatively spliced during
… Isoform 2 appeared to be highly induced in response to smut infection when compared to …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic and Pathogenic Variability among Isolates of Sporisorium reilianum Causing Sorghum Head Smut

LK Prom, EJS Ahn, R Perumal, TS Isakeit, GN Odvody… - Journal of Fungi, 2024 - mdpi.com
… , sorghum head smut is increasing due to several factors, … a cosmopolitan fungus collected
from four continents, revealedgenome when compared to other fungal pathogen genomes [36…

[HTML][HTML] Smut fungal strategies for the successful infection

W Xia, X Yu, Z Ye - Microbial pathogenesis, 2020 - Elsevier
… surface was conducted in comparison to wild type strain [26]. … , including CWDEs and
important virulence factors, such as … scale genome comparison of closely related smut fungi and …