Rise of a cereal killer: the biology of Magnaporthe oryzae biotrophic growth

J Fernandez, K Orth - Trends in microbiology, 2018 - cell.com
The rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae, causes one of the most destructive diseases of
cultivated rice in the world. Infections caused by this recalcitrant pathogen lead to the annual …

Under pressure: investigating the biology of plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae

RA Wilson, NJ Talbot - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
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 …

Dysfunction of FadA‐cAMP signalling decreases Aspergillus flavus resistance to antimicrobial natural preservative Perillaldehyde and AFB1 biosynthesis

K Yang, Q Geng, Y Luo, R Xie, T Sun… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aspergillus flavus is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that colonizes agriculture crops with
aflatoxin contamination. We found that Perillaldehyde (PAE) effectively inhibited A. flavus …

The appressorium at a glance

LS Ryder, N Cruz-Mireles, C Molinari… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Many plant pathogenic fungi have the capacity to infect their plant hosts using specialised
cells called appressoria. These structures act as a gateway between the fungus and host …

Magnaporthe as a model for understanding host-pathogen interactions

DJ Ebbole - Annu. Rev. Phytopathol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
The rice blast pathosystem has been the subject of intense interest in part because of the
importance of the disease to world agriculture, but also because both Magnaporthe oryzae …

Protein kinases in plant-pathogenic fungi: conserved regulators of infection

D Turrà, D Segorbe, A Di Pietro - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Phytopathogenic fungi have evolved an amazing diversity of infection modes and nutritional
strategies, yet the signaling pathways that govern pathogenicity are remarkably conserved …

Mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways and fungal pathogenesis

X Zhao, R Mehrabi, JR Xu - Eukaryotic cell, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
In eukaryotic cells, a family of serine/threonine protein kinases known as mitogen-activated
protein (MAP) kinases (MAPKs) is involved in the transduction of a variety of extracellular …

Systematic Analysis of Zn2Cys6 Transcription Factors Required for Development and Pathogenicity by High-Throughput Gene Knockout in the Rice Blast Fungus

J Lu, H Cao, L Zhang, P Huang, F Lin - PLoS Pathogens, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Because of great challenges and workload in deleting genes on a large scale, the functions
of most genes in pathogenic fungi are still unclear. In this study, we developed a high …

Multiple plant surface signals are sensed by different mechanisms in the rice blast fungus for appressorium formation

W Liu, X Zhou, G Li, L Li, L Kong, C Wang… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Surface recognition and penetration are among the most critical plant infection processes in
foliar pathogens. In Magnaporthe oryzae, the Pmk1 MAP kinase regulates appressorium …

Homeobox Transcription Factors Are Required for Conidiation and Appressorium Development in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

S Kim, SY Park, KS Kim, HS Rho, MH Chi, J Choi… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
The appropriate development of conidia and appressoria is critical in the disease cycle of
many fungal pathogens, including Magnaporthe oryzae. A total of eight genes (MoHOX1 to …