Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens

HN Fones, DP Bebber, TM Chaloner, WT Kay… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Emerging fungal and oomycete pathogens infect staple calorie crops and economically
important commodity crops, thereby posing a significant risk to global food security. Our …

Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems

M Bahram, T Netherway - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both
micro and macroorganisms with high and varying functional diversity as well as great …

Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops

E Stukenbrock, S Gurr - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops Skip to main content Thank you for
visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the …

The genomic consequences of hybridization

BM Moran, C Payne, Q Langdon, DL Powell… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
In the past decade, advances in genome sequencing have allowed researchers to uncover
the history of hybridization in diverse groups of species, including our own. Although the …

[HTML][HTML] Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici causal agent of vascular wilt disease of tomato: Biology to diversity–A review

C Srinivas, DN Devi, KN Murthy, CD Mohan… - Saudi journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is one of the widely grown vegetables worldwide.
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (FOL) is the significant contributory pathogen of …

Co‐evolution within the plant holobiont drives host performance

F Mesny, S Hacquard, BPHJ Thomma - EMBO reports, 2023 - embopress.org
Plants interact with a diversity of microorganisms that influence their growth and resilience,
and they can therefore be considered as ecological entities, namely “plant holobionts,” …

The impact of transposable elements in adaptive evolution

L Schrader, J Schmitz - Molecular Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The growing knowledge about the influence of transposable elements (TE s) on (a) long‐
term genome and transcriptome evolution;(b) genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic …

Metabolomics as an emerging tool for the study of plant–pathogen interactions

FR Castro-Moretti, IN Gentzel, D Mackey, AP Alonso - Metabolites, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plants defend themselves from most microbial attacks via mechanisms including cell wall
fortification, production of antimicrobial compounds, and generation of reactive oxygen …

Deacetylation of chitin oligomers increases virulence in soil-borne fungal pathogens

F Gao, BS Zhang, JH Zhao, JF Huang, PS Jia, S Wang… - Nature Plants, 2019 - nature.com
Soil-borne fungal pathogens that cause crop disease are major threats to agriculture
worldwide. Here, we identified a secretory polysaccharide deacetylase (PDA1) from the soil …

[PDF][PDF] The contribution of DNA repair pathways to genome editing and evolution in filamentous pathogens

J Huang, DE Cook - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
DNA double-strand breaks require repair or risk corrupting the language of life. To ensure
genome integrity and viability, multiple DNA double-strand break repair pathways function in …