Grey mould of strawberry, a devastating disease caused by the ubiquitous necrotrophic fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea

S Petrasch, SJ Knapp, JAL Van Kan… - Molecular plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea causes grey mould, a commercially damaging disease
of strawberry. This pathogen affects fruit in the field, storage, transport and market. The …

Achievements and challenges in legume breeding for pest and disease resistance

D Rubiales, S Fondevilla, W Chen… - Critical Reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major
diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds …

A gapless genome sequence of the fungus Botrytis cinerea

JAL Van Kan, JHM Stassen, A Mosbach… - Molecular plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Following earlier incomplete and fragmented versions of a genome sequence for the grey
mould Botrytis cinerea, a gapless, near‐finished genome sequence for B. cinerea strain …

Transcriptome dynamics of Arabidopsis during sequential biotic and abiotic stresses

S Coolen, S Proietti, R Hickman… - The Plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In nature, plants have to cope with a wide range of stress conditions that often occur
simultaneously or in sequence. To investigate how plants cope with multi‐stress conditions …

Assessing the Effects of Light on Differentiation and Virulence of the Plant Pathogen Botrytis cinerea: Characterization of the White Collar Complex

P Canessa, J Schumacher, MA Hevia, P Tudzynski… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Organisms are exposed to a tough environment, where acute daily challenges, like light, can
strongly affect several aspects of an individual's physiology, including pathogenesis. While …

Diversity of cytosine methylation across the fungal tree of life

AJ Bewick, BT Hofmeister, RA Powers… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
The generation of thousands of fungal genomes is leading to a better understanding of
genes and genomic organization within the kingdom. However, the epigenome, which …

The Destructive Fungal Pathogen Botrytis cinerea—Insights from Genes Studied with Mutant Analysis

N Cheung, L Tian, X Liu, X Li - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
Botrytis cinerea is one of the most destructive fungal pathogens affecting numerous plant
hosts, including many important crop species. As a molecularly under-studied organism, its …

DHN melanin biosynthesis in the plant pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea is based on two developmentally regulated key enzyme (PKS)‐encoding genes

J Schumacher - Molecular Microbiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
B otrytis cinerea is the causal agent of gray mold disease in various plant species and
produces grayish macroconidia and/or black sclerotia at the end of the infection cycle. It has …

Spray‐induced gene silencing to identify powdery mildew gene targets and processes for powdery mildew control

AG McRae, J Taneja, K Yee, X Shi… - Molecular Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Spray‐induced gene silencing (SIGS) is an emerging tool for crop pest protection. It utilizes
exogenously applied double‐stranded RNA to specifically reduce pest target gene …

A Survey of the Gene Repertoire of Gigaspora rosea Unravels Conserved Features among Glomeromycota for Obligate Biotrophy

N Tang, H San Clemente, S Roy, G Bécard… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are a diverse group of soil fungi (Glomeromycota) that
form the most ancient mutualistic association termed AM symbiosis with a majority of land …