As sessile organisms, plants have to endure a wide variety of biotic and abiotic stresses, and accordingly they have evolved intricate and rapidly inducible defense strategies associated with the activation of a battery of genes. Among other mechanisms, changes in chromatin structure are thought to provide a flexible, global, and stable means for the regulation of gene transcription. In support...

co-hydroxyfatty acids1}. Most plant pathogenic fungi invade their hosts by breaching the intact plant surface, and the cuticle including the polymeric cutin comprises the first barrier to be penetrated. For several host-pathogen interactions it has been demonstrated that cutin-hydrolyzing enzymes excreted by the invading pathogen are a crucial requirement for the penetration of plant cuticles2>...

Plant pathogenic fungi cause important yield losses in crops. In order to develop efficient and environment-friendly crop protection strategies, molecular studies of the fungal biological cycle and interaction with its host are necessary. For that reason, several approaches have been made using both classical genetic, cell biology and biochemistry and modern, holistic and high-throughput, omic ...

The aim of this review was to survey all fungal pathologists with an association with the journal Molecular Plant Pathology and ask them to nominate which fungal pathogens they would place in a 'Top 10' based on scientific/economic importance. The survey generated 495 votes from the international community, and resulted in the generation of a Top 10 fungal plant pathogen list for Molecular Plan...

Tomato has been a good model plant to analyze plant-pathogen interactions and its prospects for the future are promising. An international consortium named International Solanaceae Genomics Project (SOL) is proceeding with whole genome sequencing of tomato. In order to be relevant in the post-genomic era, accumulation of information on tomatopathogen interactions is important. In this review, t...

This research is concerned with the fungicidal properties of nano-size silver colloidal solution used as an agent for antifungal treatment of various plant pathogens. We used WA-CV-WA13B, WA-AT-WB13R, and WA-PR-WB13R silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) at concentrations of 10, 25, 50, and 100 ppm. Eighteen different plant pathogenic fungi were treated with these AgNPs on potato dextrose agar (PDA), ma...

'Compatibility' describes the complementary relationship between a plant species and an adapted pathogen species that underlies susceptibility and which ultimately results in disease. Owing to elaborate surveillance systems and defence mechanisms on the plant side and a common lack of adaptation of many microbial pathogens, resistance is the rule and compatibility the exception for most plant-m...

during plant infection, fungal pathogens secret polygalacturonase (pg) that are capable of degrading cell wall of susceptible plant tissues. polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins (pgips) are able to specifically inhibit fungal polygalacturonases (pgs) activity. the inhibition of fungal pgs by pgips suggests that pgips have a role in plant tolerance to fungal infections. in this study bean (dane...