Do all fungi have ancestors with endophytic lifestyles?

CS Bhunjun, C Phukhamsakda, KD Hyde… - Fungal Diversity, 2024 - Springer
Fungi are an essential component of any ecosystem and have diverse ecological roles,
ranging from endophytes to epiphytes and pathogens to saprobes. The current estimate of …

BREAKING AND ENTERING: Host Penetration by the Fungal Rice Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe grisea

RJ Howard, B Valent - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 1996 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Fungal plant pathogens have evolved diverse mechanisms for penetrating into
host plant tissue, ranging from entry through natural plant openings to various mechanisms …

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MYCELIUM: Melanins of Phytopathogenic Fungi

JM Henson, MJ Butler, AW Day - Annual review of …, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Melanins are darkly pigmented polymers that protect organisms against
environmental stress. Even when not directly involved in pathogenesis, fungal melanin is …

Signal pathways and appressorium morphogenesis

RA Dean - Annual review of phytopathology, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Fungal pathogens have evolved elaborate strategies to gain access to plant
tissues. For many pathogens, following attachment of spores to the leaf surface, germ tubes …

Gaeumannomyces graminis, the take‐all fungus and its relatives

J Freeman, E Ward - Molecular Plant Pathology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Take‐all, caused by the fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, is the most important
root disease of wheat worldwide. Many years of intensive research, reflected by the large …

Take-all disease of cereals. A regional perspective

D Hornby, GL Bateman, RJ Gutteridge, P Lucas… - 1998 - repository.rothamsted.ac.uk
Murphy, JF, Jones, JI, Pretty, JL, Duerdoth, CP, Hawczak, A., Arnold, A., Blackburn, JH,
Naden, PS, Old, G., Sear, DA, Hornby, D., Clarke, RT and Collins, AL 2015. Development of …

Root Infection and Systemic Colonization of Maize by Colletotrichum graminicola

SA Sukno, VM García, BD Shaw… - Applied and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Colletotrichum graminicola is a filamentous ascomycete that causes anthracnose disease of
maize. While the fungus can cause devastating foliar leaf blight and stalk rot diseases, little …

Appressorial interactions with host and their evolution

KWT Chethana, RS Jayawardena, YJ Chen, S Konta… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Fungi have evolved diverse strategies to acquire nutrients as endophytes, saprobes,
symbionts, or pathogens. Appressoria have been intensively studied due to their importance …

Definition of tissue-specific and general requirements for plant infection in a phytopathogenic fungus

M Dufresne, AE Osbourn - Molecular Plant-Microbe …, 2001 - Am Phytopath Society
Although plant diseases are usually characterized by the part of the plant that is affected (eg,
leaf spots, root rots, wilts), surprisingly little is known about the factors that condition the …

Adhesion of spores and hyphae to plant surfaces

L Epstein, RL Nicholson - Plant Relationships: Part A, 1997 - Springer
1 Adhesion of Spores and Hyphae to Plant Surfaces Page 1 1 Adhesion of Spores and
Hyphae to Plant Surfaces L. EpSTEINl and RL NICHOLSON2 CONTENTS I. Introduction …