Grey mould of strawberry, a devastating disease caused by the ubiquitous necrotrophic fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea

S Petrasch, SJ Knapp, JAL Van Kan… - Molecular plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea causes grey mould, a commercially damaging disease
of strawberry. This pathogen affects fruit in the field, storage, transport and market. The …

Mechanisms of Broad Host Range Necrotrophic Pathogenesis in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

X Liang, JA Rollins - Phytopathology, 2018 - Am Phytopath Society
Among necrotrophic fungi, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is remarkable for its extremely broad host
range and for its aggressive host tissue colonization. With full genome sequencing …

Ensembl Genomes 2018: an integrated omics infrastructure for non-vertebrate species

PJ Kersey, JE Allen, A Allot, M Barba… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ensembl Genomes (http://www. ensemblgenomes. org) is an integrating resource
for genome-scale data from non-vertebrate species, complementing the resources for …

AlphaFold-Multimer predicts cross-kingdom interactions at the plant-pathogen interface

F Homma, J Huang, RAL van der Hoorn - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Adapted plant pathogens from various microbial kingdoms produce hundreds of unrelated
small secreted proteins (SSPs) with elusive roles. Here, we used AlphaFold-Multimer (AFM) …

MYC2 orchestrates a hierarchical transcriptional cascade that regulates jasmonate-mediated plant immunity in tomato

M Du, J Zhao, DTW Tzeng, Y Liu, L Deng, T Yang… - The Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The hormone jasmonate (JA), which functions in plant immunity, regulates resistance to
pathogen infection and insect attack through triggering genome-wide transcriptional …

Plant extracellular self-DNA inhibits growth and induces immunity via the jasmonate signaling pathway

X Zhou, H Gao, X Zhang, M Khashi u Rahman… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to detect various forms of danger. Damage-
associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are endogenous danger molecules that are …

The genome biology of effector gene evolution in filamentous plant pathogens

A Sánchez-Vallet, S Fouché, I Fudal… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Filamentous pathogens, including fungi and oomycetes, pose major threats to global food
security. Crop pathogens cause damage by secreting effectors that manipulate the host to …

The Complete Genome Sequence of the Phytopathogenic Fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Reveals Insights into the Genome Architecture of Broad Host Range …

M Derbyshire, M Denton-Giles… - Genome biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a phytopathogenic fungus with over 400 hosts including
numerous economically important cultivated species. This contrasts many economically …

[HTML][HTML] How light affects the life of Botrytis

J Schumacher - Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Fungi, like other organisms, actively sense the environmental light conditions in order to
drive adaptive responses, including protective mechanisms against the light-associated …

The infection cushion of Botrytis cinerea: a fungal 'weapon' of plant‐biomass destruction

M Choquer, C Rascle, IR Gonçalves… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The necrotrophic plant‐pathogen fungus Botrytis cinerea produces multicellular appressoria
dedicated to plant penetration, named infection cushions (IC). A microarray analysis was …