Genomic Analysis of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea

A first genome assembly of the barley fungal pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres

(2012) Simon R Ellwood et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Living Colors in the Gray Mold Pathogen Botrytis cinerea: Codon-Optimized Genes Encoding Green Fluorescent Protein and mCherry, Which Exhibit Bright Fluorescence

(2011) Michaela Leroch et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Botrytis cinerea BcNma is involved in apoptotic cell death but not in stress adaptation

(2011) Alin Finkelshtein et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Flux of nitric oxide between the necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea and the host plant

(2011) JUAN L. TURRION-GOMEZ et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

The Botrytis cinerea phytotoxin botcinic acid requires two polyketide synthases for production and has a redundant role in virulence with botrydial

(2011) BÉRENGÈRE DALMAIS et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Considering Transposable Element Diversification in De Novo Annotation Approaches

(2011) Timothée Flutre et al.   PLoS One

Effector diversification within compartments of the Leptosphaeria maculans genome affected by Repeat-Induced Point mutations

(2011) Thierry Rouxel et al.   Nature Communications

Anti-Apoptotic Machinery Protects the Necrotrophic Fungus Botrytis cinerea from Host-Induced Apoptotic-Like Cell Death during Plant Infection

(2011) Neta Shlezinger et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Tipping the Balance: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Secreted Oxalic Acid Suppresses Host Defenses by Manipulating the Host Redox Environment

(2011) Brett Williams et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Apoptotic-like regulation of programmed cell death in plants

(2010) Theresa J. Reape et al.   APOPTOSIS

ANAIS: Analysis of NimbleGen Arrays Interface

(2010) A. Simon et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenomics reveals subfamilies of fungal nonribosomal peptide synthetases and their evolutionary relationships

(2010) Kathryn E Bushley et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of fungal ABC transporters

(2010) Andriy Kovalchuk et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Botrytis cinerea xylanase Xyn11A contributes to virulence with its necrotizing activity, not with its catalytic activity

(2010) Judith Noda et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

New developments in pathogenicity and virulence of necrotrophs

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

Sexual mating of Botrytis cinerea illustrates PRP8 intein HEG activity

(2010) Annika A.M. Bokor et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

The development-specific ssp1 and ssp2 genes of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum encode lectins with distinct yet compensatory regulation

(2010) Moyi Li et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Co-evolutionary interactions between host resistance and pathogen effector genes in flax rust disease

(2010) MICHAEL RAVENSDALE et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Périgord black truffle genome uncovers evolutionary origins and mechanisms of symbiosis

(2010) Francis Martin 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

Translocation ofMagnaporthe oryzaeEffectors into Rice Cells and Their Subsequent Cell-to-Cell Movement

(2010) Chang Hyun Khang et al.   PLANT CELL

A unique wheat disease resistance-like gene governs effector-triggered susceptibility to necrotrophic pathogens

(2010) J. D. Faris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pathogenicity Determinants in Smut Fungi Revealed by Genome Comparison

(2010) J. Schirawski et al.   SCIENCE

Genome Expansion and Gene Loss in Powdery Mildew Fungi Reveal Tradeoffs in Extreme Parasitism

(2010) P. D. Spanu et al.   SCIENCE

Secondary metabolic gene clusters: evolutionary toolkits for chemical innovation

(2010) Anne Osbourn   TRENDS IN GENETICS

A fungal phylogeny based on 82 complete genomes using the composition vector method

(2009) Hao Wang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolution of ribosomal DNA-derived satellite repeat in tomato genome

(2009) Sung-Hwan Jo et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

The Botrytis cinerea aspartic proteinase family

(2009) Arjen ten Have et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Diversity of sesquiterpene synthases in the basidiomyceteCoprinus cinereus

(2009) Sean Agger et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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

DoesBotrytis cinereaIgnore H2O2-Induced Oxidative Stress During Infection? Characterization ofBotrytisActivator Protein 1

(2009) Nora Temme et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

The development-specific protein (Ssp1) from Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is encoded by a novel gene expressed exclusively in sclerotium tissues

(2009) Moyi Li et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Under pressure: investigating the biology of plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae

(2009) Richard A. Wilson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Dynamic carbon transfer during pathogenesis of sunflower by the necrotrophic fungusBotrytis cinerea: from plant hexoses to mannitol

(2009) Thierry Dulermo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

KEGG for representation and analysis of molecular networks involving diseases and drugs

(2009) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The ABC transporter BcatrB fromBotrytis cinereaexports camalexin and is a virulence factor onArabidopsis thaliana

(2009) Francesca L. Stefanato et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Genome-wide functional analysis reveals that infection-associated fungal autophagy is necessary for rice blast disease

(2009) M. J. Kershaw et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits

(2009) Conrad L. Schoch et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Efflux in Fungi: La Pièce de Résistance

(2009) Jeffrey J. Coleman et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Fungicide-Driven Evolution and Molecular Basis of Multidrug Resistance in Field Populations of the Grey Mould Fungus Botrytis cinerea

(2009) Matthias Kretschmer et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Sesquiterpene Synthase from the Botrydial Biosynthetic Gene Cluster of the PhytopathogenBotrytis cinerea

(2008) Cristina Pinedo et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Genome Annotation in Plants and Fungi: EuGene as a Model Platform

(2008) Sylvain Foissac et al.   Current Bioinformatics

Evolutionary Biology: Genomic Clues to Original Sex in Fungi

(2008) Paul S. Dyer   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Secondary metabolism: regulation and role in fungal biology

(2008) Ellen M Fox et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Transcription factors in fungi

(2008) Ekaterina Shelest   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Comparative genomics of the oxidative phosphorylation system in fungi

(2008) José L. Lavín et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

The Gα subunit BCG1, the phospholipase C (BcPLC1) and the calcineurin phosphatase co-ordinately regulate gene expression in the grey mould fungus Botrytis cinerea

(2008) Julia Schumacher et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Plant programmed cell death: can't live with it; can't live without it

(2008) BRETT WILLIAMS et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Oxalic Acid Is an Elicitor of Plant Programmed Cell Death duringSclerotinia sclerotiorumDisease Development

(2008) Kyoung Su Kim et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

NADPH Oxidases Are Involved in Differentiation and Pathogenicity in Botrytis cinerea

(2008) Nadja Segmüller et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

The cAMP-Dependent Signaling Pathway and Its Role in Conidial Germination, Growth, and Virulence of the Gray Mold Botrytis cinerea

(2008) Julia Schumacher et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Identification of the sex genes in an early diverged fungus

(2008) Alexander Idnurm et al.   NATURE

CDD: specific functional annotation with the Conserved Domain Database

(2008) A. Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Assessing the Performance of Single-Copy Genes for Recovering Robust Phylogenies

(2008) G. Aguileta et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Genomic Islands in the Pathogenic Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

(2008) Natalie D. Fedorova et al.   PLoS Genetics

Sclerotial development in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: awakening molecular analysis of a “Dormant” structure

(2008) A. Erental et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

The MEROPS batch BLAST: A tool to detect peptidases and their non-peptidase homologues in a genome

(2007) Neil D. Rawlings et al.   BIOCHIMIE

The genetic basis for indole-diterpene chemical diversity in filamentous fungi

(2007) Sanjay Saikia et al.  

Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea: the role of hybrid PKS-NRPS in pathogenicity

(2007) Jérôme Collemare et al.