RNA silencing is a well-established antiviral immunity system in plants, in which small RNAs
guide Argonaute proteins to targets in viral RNA or DNA, resulting in virus repression. Virus …

Recent discoveries regarding small RNAs and the mechanisms of gene silencing are
providing new opportunities to explore fungal pathogen–host interactions and potential …

The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

RNA interference (RNAi), a gene-silencing pathway triggered by double-stranded RNA, is
conserved in diverse eukaryotic species but has been lost in the model budding yeast …

The exchange of small RNAs (sRNAs) between hosts and pathogens can lead to gene
silencing in the recipient organism, a mechanism termed cross-kingdom RNAi (ck-RNAi) …

The RNA interference (RNAi) pathway is found in most eukaryotic lineages but curiously is
absent in others, including that of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We show that reconstituting …

Fungi have the capacity to cause devastating diseases of both plants and animals, causing
significant harvest losses that threaten food security and human mycoses with high mortality …

Anthracnose is a severe disease caused by Colletotrichum spp. on several crop species.
Fungal infections can occur both in the field and at the post-harvest stage causing severe …

Plant pathogenic fungi are the largest group of disease-causing agents on crop plants and
represent a persistent and significant threat to agriculture worldwide. Conventional …

Ustilago hordei is a biotrophic parasite of barley (Hordeum vulgare). After seedling infection,
the fungus persists in the plant until head emergence when fungal spores develop and are …