Fungi have developed a plethora of strategies to colonize plants, and these interactions
result in a broad spectrum of outcomes ranging from beneficial interactions to death of the …

Plant diseases caused by necrotrophic fungal pathogens result in large economic losses in
field crop production worldwide. Effectors are important players of plant-pathogen interaction …

Fungi cause severe diseases on a broad range of crop and ornamental plants, leading to
significant economical losses. Plant pathogenic fungi exhibit a huge variability in their mode …

The wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum produces multiple necrotrophic effectors (also
called host-selective toxins) that promote disease by interacting with corresponding host …

Accelerated wheat development and deployment of high-yielding, climate resilient, and
disease resistant cultivars can contribute to enhanced food security and sustainable …

Small, secreted proteins have been found to play crucial roles in interactions between
biotrophic/hemi-biotrophic pathogens and plants. However, little is known about the roles of …

Fungal diseases pose constant threats to the global economy and food safety. As the largest
group of plant fungal pathogens, necrotrophic fungi cause heavy crop losses worldwide. The …

Many necrotrophic plant pathogenic fungi belonging to the class of Dothideomycetes
produce phytotoxic metabolites and peptides that are usually required for pathogenicity …

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 …

It was generally considered that necrotrophic plant pathogenic fungi possessed simplistic
pathogenic mechanisms being typically reliant on 'blasting'their way through host tissue with …