Plant‐pathogenic fungi are a significant threat to economic and food security worldwide.
Novel protection strategies are required and therefore it is critical we understand the …

In the fungal kingdom, the ability to cause disease in plants appears to have arisen multiple
times during evolution. In many cases, the ability to infect particular plant species depends …

Fungi constitute the most diverse and damaging group of plant pathogens and have
attracted a considerable amount of interest as challenging and important subjects for …

Phyto-pathogenic fungi can cause huge damage to crop production. During millions of years
of coexistence, fungi have evolved diverse life-style to obtain nutrients from the host and to …

The identification of the fungal genes essential for disease underpins the development of
disease control strategies. Improved technologies for gene identification and functional …

Effectors are molecules used by microbial pathogens to facilitate infection via effector-
triggered susceptibility or tissue necrosis in their host. Much research has been focussed on …

Many fungi can live both saprophytically and as endophyte or pathogen inside a living plant.
In both environments, complex organic polymers are used as sources of nutrients …

Fungal plant pathogens can cause enormous losses in yield and quality of field crops, fruits,
and other edible plant material, and this becomes increasingly a more important issue to …

Sophisticated molecular biological research has revealed many virulence attributes in at
least four pathogenic fungi, but the future study of fungal virulence requires investigators to …

The interaction of fungal pathogens with their host requires a novel invading mechanism
and the presence of various virulence-associated components responsible for promoting the …