Restriction enzyme mediated insertional mutagenesis using a plasmid, pUCATPH, that
confers hygromycin resistance, generated loss-of-pathogenicity mutants of Leptosphaeria …

Fungi are important pathogens of plants and cause more significant yield losses than
bacteria or viruses. However, bacteria and viruses are more important than fungi as …

Most of the approximately 100,000 known species of fungi are strictly sapro phytic and
degrade dead organic materials for their source of nutrients. Only 8000can cause disease …

Background A critical aspect of plant infection by the majority of pathogens is penetration of
the plant cell wall. This process requires the production and secretion of a broad spectrum of …

Approximately a tenth of all described fungal species can cause diseases in plants. A
common feature of this process is the necessity to pass through the plant cell wall, an …

Brown-rot fungi such as Postia placenta are common inhabitants of forest ecosystems and
are also largely responsible for the destructive decay of wooden structures. Rapid …

Sophisticated molecular biological research has revealed many virulence attributes in at
least four pathogenic fungi, but the future study of fungal virulence requires investigators to …

In the fungal kingdom, the ability to cause disease in plants appears to have arisen multiple
times during evolution. In many cases, the ability to infect particular plant species depends …

This book brings together the knowledge from and tools for genetic and genomic research
into oomycetes to help solve the problems this pathogen poses to crops and animals. Armed …

What makes a fungus pathogenic? In this review, phylogenetic inference is used to
speculate on the evolution of plant and animal pathogens in the fungal Phylum Ascomycota …