Verticillium wilt (VW) is a soil-borne fungal disease that is caused by Verticillium dahliae
Kleb and seriously damages cotton production annually in China. To date, many efforts have …

Nicotiana benthamiana originates from northern Australia and belongs to the Suaveolentes
section. It is used extensively as a model organism for many types of research, including …

Glycoside hydrolase (GH) family members act as virulence factors and regulate plant
immune responses during pathogen infection. Here, we characterized the GH28 family …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play essential roles in plant defense responses, although such roles
have not been identified in cotton in response to the plant pathogenic fungus Verticillium …

Many subunits of the Mediator transcriptional co-activator complex are multifunctional
proteins that regulate plant immunity in Arabidopsis. Cotton cyclin-dependent kinase E …

Previous studies have reported the ability of fungi to overwinter in soil or on crop debris
under different environmental conditions, but how fungi adapt to chilling is still largely …

Verticillium wilt is one of the most important diseases affecting cotton production in China.
The fungus, Verticillium dahliae, has a wide host range and a high degree of genetic …

The soil‐borne vascular pathogen Verticillium dahliae infects many dicotyledonous plants to
cause devastating wilt diseases. During colonization, V. dahliae spores develop hyphae …

Both abiotic and biotic stress factors adversely affect plant survival, biomass generation, and
crop yields. As the global availability of arable land decreases and the impacts of global …

Phytopathogens develop specialized infection-related structures to penetrate plant cells
during infection. Different from phytopathogens that form appressoria or haustoria, the soil …