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 …

Few plant pathogens have had a more profound effect on the evolution of disease
management than Erysiphe necator, which causes grapevine powdery mildew. When the …

Plant cells engage in mutualistic and parasitic endosymbioses with a wide variety of
microoganisms, ranging from Gram-negative (Rhizobium, Nostoc) and Gram-positive …

Biotrophic plant pathogenic fungi are one of the major causes of crop losses. The infection
processes they exhibit are typified by infected host plant cells remaining alive for several …

Plant pathogenic fungi differentiate a highly specialized infection cell called an
appressorium to infect their hosts. Appressorium formation is induced by specific physical or …

Powdery mildews, obligate biotrophic fungal parasites on a wide range of important crops,
can be controlled by plant resistance (R) genes, but these are rapidly overcome by parasite …

The ability of a Colletotrichum sp., originally isolated from Brassica campestris, to infect
Arabidopsis thaliana was examined. Sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer …

The apparent under-representation of the term 'plant disease susceptibility'as opposed to
'plant disease resistance'in the current scientific literature might indicate that …

▪ Abstract Parasitic biotrophs such as mildews and rusts evolved specific mechanisms that
keep host cells alive during infection. These fungi appear to absorb nutrients mainly by …

Powdery mildews are among the most common plant diseases, infecting over 650 monocot
and over 9000 dicot species. Analysis in domesticated barley and wild Arabidopsis has …