Two well characterized signal transduction cascades regulating fungal development and
virulence are the MAP kinase and cAMP signaling cascades. Here we review the current …

Recently many fungal genes have been identified that, when disrupted, result in strains with
a reduction or total loss of disease symptoms. Such pathogenicity genes are the subject of …

A modification of the amplified fragment length polymorphism technique was developed for
the determination of DNA methylation in dimorphic fungi representative of three of the major …

Ustilago maydis is a dimorphic fungus with a yeast-like non-pathogenic form and a
filamentous (hyphal) pathogenic form that induces tumor formation in maize. Within mature …

Yarrowia lipolytica is an ascomycete with biotechnological potential. In common media, the
fungus grows as a mixture of yeast-like and short mycelial cells. The environmental factors …

Ustilago maydis, a fungal pathogen of maize, alternates between budding and filamentous
growth in response to mating and other environmental signals. Defects in components of the …

The cAMP signal transduction pathway controls a wide variety of processes in fungi. For
example, considerable progress has been made in describing the involvement of cAMP …

Ustilago maydis is able to initiate pathogenic development after fusion of two haploid cells
with different mating type. On the maize leaf surface, the resulting dikaryon switches to …

In the plant, filamentous growth is required for pathogenicity of the corn smut pathogen
Ustilago maydis. Earlier, we identified a role for the cAMP signal transduction pathway in the …

Ustilago maydis, the causal agent of corn smut disease, displays dimorphic growth in which
it alternates between a budding haploid saprophyte and a filamentous dikaryotic pathogen …