Plant genes hijacked by necrotrophic fungal pathogens

JD Faris, TL Friesen - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant fungal pathogens can be classified according to their lifestyles. Biotrophs feed on
living tissue and constitute an economically significant group of pathogens historically …

Host‐specific toxins: effectors of necrotrophic pathogenicity

TL Friesen, JD Faris, PS Solomon… - Cellular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Host‐specific toxins (HSTs) are defined as pathogen effectors that induce toxicity and
promote disease only in the host species and only in genotypes of that host expressing a …

Emergence of a new disease as a result of interspecific virulence gene transfer

TL Friesen, EH Stukenbrock, Z Liu, S Meinhardt… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
New diseases of humans, animals and plants emerge regularly. Enhanced virulence on a
new host can be facilitated by the acquisition of novel virulence factors. Interspecific gene …

A wheat cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase confers broad-spectrum resistance against Septoria tritici blotch

C Saintenac, F Cambon, L Aouini, E Verstappen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The poverty of disease resistance gene reservoirs limits the breeding of crops for durable
resistance against evolutionary dynamic pathogens. Zymoseptoria tritici which causes …

The Cysteine Rich Necrotrophic Effector SnTox1 Produced by Stagonospora nodorum Triggers Susceptibility of Wheat Lines Harboring Snn1

Z Liu, Z Zhang, JD Faris, RP Oliver, R Syme… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum produces multiple necrotrophic effectors (also
called host-selective toxins) that promote disease by interacting with corresponding host …

Dothideomycete–Plant Interactions Illuminated by Genome Sequencing and EST Analysis of the Wheat Pathogen Stagonospora nodorum

JK Hane, RGT Lowe, PS Solomon, KC Tan… - The Plant …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Stagonospora nodorum is a major necrotrophic fungal pathogen of wheat (Triticum
aestivum) and a member of the Dothideomycetes, a large fungal taxon that includes many …

SnTox3 Acts in Effector Triggered Susceptibility to Induce Disease on Wheat Carrying the Snn3 Gene

Z Liu, JD Faris, RP Oliver, KC Tan, PS Solomon… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
The necrotrophic fungus Stagonospora nodorum produces multiple proteinaceous host-
selective toxins (HSTs) which act in effector triggered susceptibility. Here, we report the …

Stagonospora nodorum: From Pathology to Genomics and Host Resistance

RP Oliver, TL Friesen, JD Faris… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Stagonospora nodorum is a major necrotrophic pathogen of wheat that causes the diseases
S. nodorum leaf and glume blotch. A series of tools and resources, including functional …

The Stagonospora nodorum‐wheat pathosystem involves multiple proteinaceous host‐selective toxins and corresponding host sensitivity genes that interact in an …

TL Friesen, SW Meinhardt, JD Faris - The Plant Journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We recently showed that the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum produces
proteinaceous host‐selective toxins (HSTs). These toxins include SnTox1 as well as …

Tools of the crook‐infection strategies of fungal plant pathogens

L Rodriguez‐Moreno, MK Ebert, MD Bolton… - The Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi represent an ecologically diverse group of microorganisms that includes plant
pathogenic species able to cause considerable yield loses in crop production systems …