Mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling in plant pathogenic fungi

C Jiang, X Zhang, H Liu, JR Xu - PLoS pathogens, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Like in other eukaryotic organisms, mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascades play
important roles in response to host and environmental signals in fungal pathogens. In …

Regulation of biotic interactions and responses to abiotic stresses by MAP kinase pathways in plant pathogenic fungi

X Zhang, Z Wang, C Jiang, JR Xu - Stress Biology, 2021 - Springer
Like other eukaryotes, fungi use MAP kinase (MAPK) pathways to mediate cellular changes
responding to external stimuli. In the past two decades, three well-conserved MAP kinase …

A single fungal MAP kinase controls plant cell-to-cell invasion by the rice blast fungus

W Sakulkoo, M Osés-Ruiz, E Oliveira Garcia… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Blast disease destroys up to 30% of the rice crop annually and threatens global food
security. The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae invades plant tissue with hyphae that …

A non-pheromone GPCR is essential for meiosis and ascosporogenesis in the wheat scab fungus

M Ding, S Cao, D Xu, A Xia, Z Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Meiosis is essential for generating genetic diversity and sexual spores, but the regulation of
meiosis and ascosporogenesis is not clear in filamentous fungi, in which dikaryotic and …

An expanded subfamily of G-protein-coupled receptor genes in Fusarium graminearum required for wheat infection

C Jiang, S Cao, Z Wang, H Xu, J Liang, H Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The cAMP–PKA and MAP kinase pathways are essential for plant infection in the
wheat head blight fungus Fusarium graminearum. To identify upstream receptors of these …

Speaking the host language: how Salmonella effector proteins manipulate the host

TD Pillay, SU Hettiarachchi, J Gan… - …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Salmonella injects over 40 virulence factors, termed effectors, into host cells to subvert
diverse host cellular processes. Of these 40 Salmonella effectors, at least 25 have been …

Deletion of all three MAP kinase genes results in severe defects in stress responses and pathogenesis in Fusarium graminearum

J Ren, Y Zhang, Y Wang, C Li, Z Bian, X Zhang, H Liu… - Stress Biology, 2022 - Springer
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are activated by external stimuli and
convert signals to cellular changes. Individual MAPKs have been characterized in a number …

Herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid interferes with MAP kinase signaling in Fusarium graminearum and is inhibitory to fungal growth and pathogenesis

K Duan, Q Shen, Y Wang, P Xiang, Y Shi, C Yang… - Stress Biology, 2023 - Springer
Plant hormones are important for regulating growth, development, and plant-pathogen
interactions. Some of them are inhibitory to growth of fungal pathogens but the underlying …

CgEnd3 Regulates Endocytosis, Appressorium Formation, and Virulence in the Poplar Anthracnose Fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides

X Wang, D Lu, C Tian - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The hemibiotrophic ascomycete fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides is the causal agent
of anthracnose on numerous plants, and it causes considerable economic losses worldwide …

Differential roles, crosstalk and response to the antifungal protein AfpB in the three mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) pathways of the citrus postharvest …

M Gandía, S Garrigues, M Hernanz-Koers… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fungi have three mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs): Kss1/Fus3 involved in the
invasive growth and virulence of pathogens, Hog1 in response to osmotic stress, and …