Fungal pathogenicity genes in the age of ‘omics’

New developments in pathogenicity and virulence of necrotrophs

(2010) Richard P Oliver et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

The Transcription Factor StuA Regulates Central Carbon Metabolism, Mycotoxin Production, and Effector Gene Expression in the Wheat Pathogen Stagonospora nodorum

(2010) Simon V. S. IpCho et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Contribution of Peroxisomes to Secondary Metabolism and Pathogenicity in the Fungal Plant Pathogen Alternaria alternata

(2010) Ai Imazaki et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

The host-infecting fungal transcriptome

(2010) Timothy Cairns et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Proteomics of Plant Pathogenic Fungi

(2010) Raquel González-Fernández et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The autophagy genes atg8 and atg1 affect morphogenesis and pathogenicity in Ustilago maydis

(2010) MARINA NADAL et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

(2010) Li-Jun Ma et al.   NATURE

Host-selective toxins, Ptr ToxA and Ptr ToxB, as necrotrophic effectors in the Pyrenophora tritici-repentis-wheat interaction

(2010) Lynda M. Ciuffetti et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The use of FLP-mediated recombination for the functional analysis of an effector gene family in the biotrophic smut fungus Ustilago maydis

(2010) Yuliya Khrunyk et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cell Cycle-Mediated Regulation of Plant Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus

(2010) D. G.O. Saunders et al.   PLANT CELL

Disruption of Signaling in a Fungal-Grass Symbiosis Leads to Pathogenesis

(2010) C. J. Eaton et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Maize Tumors Caused by Ustilago maydis Require Organ-Specific Genes in Host and Pathogen

(2010) D. S. Skibbe et al.   SCIENCE

Conserved Fungal LysM Effector Ecp6 Prevents Chitin-Triggered Immunity in Plants

(2010) R. de Jonge et al.   SCIENCE

Pathogenesis, parasitism and mutualism in the trophic space of microbe–plant interactions

(2010) Adrian C. Newton et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

A Novel High-Affinity Sucrose Transporter Is Required for Virulence of the Plant Pathogen Ustilago maydis

(2010) Ramon Wahl et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Combining ChIP-chip and Expression Profiling to Model the MoCRZ1 Mediated Circuit for Ca2+/Calcineurin Signaling in the Rice Blast Fungus

(2010) Soonok Kim et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Harnessing ectomycorrhizal genomics for ecological insights

(2009) Francis Martin et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Recent progress in discovery and functional analysis of effector proteins of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens

(2009) Jeffrey G Ellis et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

The emerging role of autophagy in plant pathogen attack and host defence

(2009) Nicholas J Talbot et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Hunting down fungal secretomes using liquid-phase IEF prior to high resolution 2-DE

(2009) Delphine Vincent et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

Mutations to LmIFRD affect cell wall integrity, development and pathogenicity of the ascomycete Leptosphaeria maculans

(2009) Angela P. Van de Wouw et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

The filamentous fungal gene expression database (FFGED)

(2009) Zhang Zhang et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Major roles of isocitrate lyase and malate synthase in bacterial and fungal pathogenesis

(2009) M. F. Dunn et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Assessing the impact of transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics on fungal phytopathology

(2009) KAR-CHUN TAN et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Fungal effector proteins: past, present and future

(2009) PIERRE J. G. M. DE WIT et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Identification of virulence genes inFusarium oxysporumf. sp.lycopersiciby large-scale transposon tagging

(2009) MANUEL SÁNCHEZ LÓPEZ-BERGES et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

The role of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase signalling components and the Ste12 transcription factor in germination and pathogenicity ofBotrytis cinerea

(2009) ASTRID SCHAMBER et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Emerging Concepts in Effector Biology of Plant-Associated Organisms

(2009) Saskia A. Hogenhout et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Sfp-Type 4'-Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase Is Indispensable for Fungal Pathogenicity

(2009) R. Horbach et al.   PLANT CELL

Fungal LysM effectors: extinguishers of host immunity?

(2009) Ronnie de Jonge et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Nuclear Protein Sge1 of Fusarium oxysporum Is Required for Parasitic Growth

(2009) Caroline B. Michielse et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Pep1, a Secreted Effector Protein of Ustilago maydis, Is Required for Successful Invasion of Plant Cells

(2009) Gunther Doehlemann et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Host-specific toxins: effectors of necrotrophic pathogenicity

(2008) Timothy L. Friesen et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Ku70orKu80deficiencies in the fungusBotrytis cinereafacilitate targeting of genes that are hard to knock out in a wild-type context

(2008) Mathias Choquer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Transposon-tagging identifies novel pathogenicity genes in Fusarium graminearum

(2008) Marie Dufresne et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

The novelCladosporium fulvumlysin motif effector Ecp6 is a virulence factor with orthologues in other fungal species

(2008) Melvin D. Bolton et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Functional Analysis of a Multicopy Host-Selective ACT-Toxin Biosynthesis Gene in the Tangerine Pathotype of Alternaria alternata Using RNA Silencing

(2008) Y. Miyamoto et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Comparative Genome Analysis of Filamentous Fungi Reveals Gene Family Expansions Associated with Fungal Pathogenesis

(2008) Darren M. Soanes et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptome analysis reveals new insight into appressorium formation and function in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

(2008) Yeonyee Oh et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Improved gene targeting in Magnaporthe grisea by inactivation of MgKU80 required for non-homologous end joining

(2007) François Villalba et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY