Fungal pathogens continue to pose a significant threat to crop production and food supply.
The early stages of plant–fungus interactions are mostly mediated by microbe‐associated …

The impact of fungal diseases on crop production negatively reflects on sustainable food
production and overall economic health. Ergosterol is the major sterol component in fungal …

One of the most complex challenges faced by plant-associated microbes is to modulate the
host's physiology to mitigate the defense response, gain nutrition, and reproduce (Torto …

Extracellular recognition of pathogens by plants constitutes an important early detection
system in plant immunity. Microbe-derived molecules, also named patterns, can be …

Plants are sessile organisms that are under constant attack from microbes. They rely on both
preformed defenses, and their innate immune system to ward of the microbial pathogens …

In plants, pathogen defense is initiated by recognition of pathogen‐associated molecular
patterns (PAMP s) via plasma membrane‐localized pattern‐recognition receptors (PRR s) …

Plant innate immunity relies in first place on the detection of invading microbes. Thus, plants
evolved receptors to sense unique molecules of the microbe, the so called microbe …

Fungal pathogenesis requires molecular communication between the fungus and its host.
Fungus–plant interactions involve complex developmental processes in which a variety of …

Fungal cell walls, which are essential for environmental adaptation and host colonization by
the fungus, have been evolutionarily selected by plants and animals as a source of microbe …

The roles of ergosterol in the regulation of membrane fluidity and structure, as well its role as
a target for the activity of antifungals, have been known for decades. Two recent studies …