Evolution and genome architecture in fungal plant pathogens

M Möller, EH Stukenbrock - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
… and dispersal of pathogens. In this Review, we summarize key examples from fungal plant
pathogen genomics and discuss evolutionary processes in pathogenic fungi in the context of …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative genome analysis of plant ascomycete fungal pathogens with different lifestyles reveals distinctive virulence strategies

Y Wang, J Wu, J Yan, M Guo, L Xu, L Hou, Q Zou - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
… The plant cell wall is an important physical barrier that serves as the first line of plant defense
that plant pathogens encounter during infection and is composed of basic carbohydrate …

The evolving fungal genome

EH Stukenbrock, D Croll - Fungal Biology Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
… evolution including the importance of mobile genetic elements, genome defenses, and
chromosomal plasticity in pathogenic species. The relative ease of sequencing and assembling …

Dynamics of transposable elements in recently diverged fungal pathogens: lineage-specific transposable element content and efficiency of genome defenses

C Lorrain, A Feurtey, M Möller, J Haueisen… - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… The evolution of fungal effectors, which are crucial determinants of … TEs in pathogen genomes.
Here, we describe how TEs have shaped genome evolution of the fungal wheat pathogen

Biotrophic fungal pathogens: a critical overview

W Fei, Y Liu - Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2023 - Springer
… The genome-wide prediction tools were used to identify … the genomic sequence of many
biotrophic fungal pathogens. … of infection, defense mechanism of both pathogens, immune …

Fungal pathogens: the battle for plant infection

RB Ferreira, S Monteiro, R Freitas… - Critical Reviews in …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
… plants expressing an Arabidopsis gene which causes loss of … non-host fungal pathogens
but maintain the gene-for-gene … of fungal pathogen-induced, cell wall–associated defense

Trajectory and genomic determinants of fungal-pathogen speciation and host adaptation

X Hu, G Xiao, P Zheng, Y Shang, Y Su… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
… evolution of existing protein sequences whereas generalization was associated with
protein-family expansion, loss of genome-defense mechanisms, genome restructuring, horizontal …

Fungal genomes and insights into the evolution of the kingdom

JE Stajich - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Some pathogenic fungi produce toxin molecules or effector proteins to kill host cells or
disable host defenses, while others are opportunistic pathogens that only cause disease when …

[HTML][HTML] A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen

A Feurtey, C Lorrain, MC McDonald, A Milgate… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… global thousand-genome panel of Zymoseptoria tritici, a major fungal pathogen of wheat
reported … To analyze the effectiveness of genomic defenses against active TEs, we screened all …

Molecular mechanisms underlying multi-level defense responses of horticultural crops to fungal pathogens

X Xu, Y Chen, B Li, Z Zhang, G Qin, T Chen… - Horticulture …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… progress on defense responses of horticultural crops to fungal pathogens and novel … PR,
and other defense-related gene families were identified in the grapevine genome. Notably, four …