Plant Fungal Pathogenesis

Plant Fungal Pathogenesis

1Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China 2School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1 3Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, SK, Canada S9H 3X2 4College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China 5Department of P...

Fungal resistance to plant antibiotics as a mechanism of pathogenesis.

Many plants produce low-molecular-weight compounds which inhibit the growth of phytopathogenic fungi in vitro. These compounds may be preformed inhibitors that are present constitutively in healthy plants (also known as phytoanticipins), or they may be synthesized in response to pathogen attack (phytoalexins). Successful pathogens must be able to circumvent or overcome these antifungal defenses...

Parallels in fungal pathogenesis on plant and animal hosts.

Metabolism in fungal pathogenesis.

Fungal pathogens must assimilate local nutrients to establish an infection in their mammalian host. We focus on carbon, nitrogen, and micronutrient assimilation mechanisms, discussing how these influence host-fungus interactions during infection. We highlight several emerging trends based on the available data. First, the perturbation of carbon, nitrogen, or micronutrient assimilation attenuate...

Chitin synthesis and fungal pathogenesis

Chitin is an essential part of the carbohydrate skeleton of the fungal cell wall and is a molecule that is not represented in humans and other vertebrates. Complex regulatory mechanisms enable chitin to be positioned at specific sites throughout the cell cycle to maintain the overall strength of the wall and enable rapid, life-saving modifications to be made under cell wall stress conditions. C...