The filamentous fungus Magnaporthe oryzae causes rice blast, the most serious disease of
cultivated rice. Cellular differentiation of M. oryzae forms an infection structure called the …

Epidemics caused by fungal plant pathogens pose a major threat to agro-ecosystems and
impact global food security. High-throughput sequencing enabled major advances in …

Nematode-trapping fungi are “carnivorous” and attack their hosts using specialized trapping
devices. The morphological development of these traps is the key indicator of their switch …

Background Globodera pallida is a devastating pathogen of potato crops, making it one of
the most economically important plant parasitic nematodes. It is also an important model for …

Fusarium graminearum is one of the main causal agents of Fusarium Ear Blight on wheat.
How the pathogen colonises the entire ear is not known. There is controversy over whether …

The fungus Fusarium graminearum forms an intimate association with the host species
wheat whilst infecting the floral tissues at anthesis. During the prolonged latent period of …

The kingdom Stramenopile includes diatoms, brown algae, and oomycetes. Plant
pathogenic oomycetes, including Phytophthora, Pythium and downy mildew species, cause …

This is an account of the molecular systematics and phylogeny of the osmotrophic
stramenopile lineages traditionally studied by mycologists, which include the …

Cercospora leaf spot, caused by the fungal pathogen Cercospora beticola, is the most
destructive foliar disease of sugar beet worldwide. This review discusses C. beticola …

The grey mould fungus Botrytis cinerea produces two major phytotoxins, the sesquiterpene
botrydial, for which the biosynthesis gene cluster has been characterized previously, and the …