Filamentous fungi have a long-standing tradition as industrial producers of primary and
secondary metabolites. Initially, industrial scientists selected production strains from natural …

Plant-colonizing fungi secrete a cocktail of effector proteins during colonization. After
secretion, some of these effectors are delivered into plant cells to directly dampen the plant …

Cerato‐platanin proteins (CP s), which are secreted by filamentous fungi, are phytotoxic to
host plants, but their functions have not been well defined to date. Here we characterized a …

Phytopathogens secrete effector proteins to manipulate their hosts for effective colonization.
Hemibiotrophic fungi must maintain host viability during initial biotrophic growth and elicit …

Structural biology has the potential to illuminate the evolution of pathogen effectors and their
commonalities that cannot be readily detected at the primary sequence level. Recent …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yap1 protein is an AP1-like transcription factor involved in the
regulation of the oxidative stress response. An ortholog of Yap1, MoAP1, was recently …

Background The white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a devastating necrotrophic
plant pathogen with a remarkably broad host range. The interaction of necrotrophs with their …

Background The asexual fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) causing vascular
wilt disease is one of the most devastating pathogens of banana (Musa spp.). To understand …

Proteins belonging to the cerato‐platanin family are small proteins with phytotoxic activity. A
member of this family, BcSpl1, is one of the most abundant proteins in the Botrytis cinerea …

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 …