Investigation of the red bread mold that contaminated French bakeries nearly two centuries
ago has led to a wealth of discoveries that have impacted our understanding of genetic …

The fungus Fusarium fujikuroi causes “bakanae” disease of rice due to its ability to produce
gibberellins (GAs), but it is also known for producing harmful mycotoxins. However, the …

The low rate of homologous recombination exhibited by wild-type strains of filamentous
fungi has hindered development of high-throughput gene knockout procedures for this …

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation (ATMT) has long been used to transfer
genes to a wide variety of plants and has also served as an efficient tool for insertional …

Genetic mapping showed that the rice blast avirulence gene AVR-Pita is tightly linked to a
telomere on chromosome 3 in the plant pathogenic fungus Magnaporthe grisea. AVR-Pita …

Gene disruption and overexpression play central roles in the analysis of gene function.
Homologous recombination is, in principle, the most efficient method of disrupting …

In plants and fungi, the introduction of transgenes can lead to post-transcriptional gene
silencing,. This phenomenon, in which expression of the transgene and of endogenous …

Genetic analysis of host specificity in the rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe grisea) identified a
single gene, PWL2 (for Pathogenicity toward Weeping Lovegrass), that exerts a major effect …

Mutagenesis of Magnaporthe grisea strain 4091-5-8 led to the identification of PTH11, a
pathogenicity gene predicted to encode a novel transmembrane protein. We localized a …

We have previously shown that the beneficial filamentous fungus Trichoderma virens
secretes the highly effective hydrophobin-like elicitor Sm1 that induces systemic disease …