Time for Chocolate: Current Understanding and New Perspectives on Cacao Witches’ Broom Disease Research

Apoplastic and intracellular plant sugars regulate developmental transitions in witches’ broom disease of cacao

(2014) Joan Barau et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

High-Resolution Transcript Profiling of the Atypical Biotrophic Interaction betweenTheobroma cacaoand the Fungal PathogenMoniliophthora perniciosa

(2014) Paulo José Pereira Lima Teixeira et al.   PLANT CELL

Interaction ofMoniliophthora perniciosabiotypes with Micro-Tom tomato: a model system to investigate the witches' broom disease ofTheobroma cacao

(2014) J. Deganello et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Functional Diversification of Cerato-Platanins in Moniliophthora perniciosa as Seen by Differential Expression and Protein Function Specialization

(2013) Mario R. de O. Barsottini et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

A potential role for an extracellular methanol oxidase secreted by Moniliophthora perniciosa in Witches’ broom disease in cacao

(2012) Bruno V. de Oliveira et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

The hemibiotrophic cacao pathogen Moniliophthora perniciosa depends on a mitochondrial alternative oxidase for biotrophic development

(2012) Daniela P. T. Thomazella et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Fungal Pathogen Moniliophthora perniciosa Has Genes Similar to Plant PR-1 That Are Highly Expressed during Its Interaction with Cacao

(2012) Paulo J.P.L. Teixeira et al.   PLoS One

The Crystal Structure of Necrosis- and Ethylene-Inducing Protein 2 from the Causal Agent of Cacao’s Witches’ Broom Disease Reveals Key Elements for Its Activity

(2011) Gustavo Zaparoli et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

The genome of Theobroma cacao

(2010) Xavier Argout et al.   NATURE GENETICS

dsRNA-induced gene silencing in Moniliophthora perniciosa, the causal agent of witches’ broom disease of cacao

(2009) A.C. Caribé dos Santos et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Genes Acquired by Horizontal Transfer Are Potentially Involved in the Evolution of Phytopathogenicity in Moniliophthora perniciosa and Moniliophthora roreri, Two of the Major Pathogens of Cacao

(2009) Ricardo Augusto Tiburcio et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Infection Biology of Moniliophthora perniciosa on Theobroma cacao and Alternate Solanaceous Hosts

(2009) Jean-Philippe Marelli et al.   Tropical Plant Biology

A genome survey of Moniliophthora perniciosa gives new insights into Witches' Broom Disease of cacao

(2008) Jorge MC Mondego et al.   BMC GENOMICS