Botrytis cinerea is a significant necrotrophic plant pathogen causing devastating diseases
on more than 500 plant species, especially on fresh fruits and vegetables, resulting in the …

Plant pathogenic fungi cause important yield losses in crops. In order to develop efficient
and environmental friendly crop protection strategies, molecular studies of the fungal …

Phytopathogens secrete effector proteins to manipulate their hosts for effective colonization.
Hemibiotrophic fungi must maintain host viability during initial biotrophic growth and elicit …

Proteins belonging to the cerato‐platanin family are small proteins with phytotoxic activity. A
member of this family, BcSpl1, is one of the most abundant proteins in the Botrytis cinerea …

Targeted gene inactivation is extensively used in the plant pathogenic fungus Botrytis
cinerea for gene function analysis while strategies involving the expression of reporter …

Cell walls are barriers that impair colonization of host tissues, but also are important
reservoirs of energy-rich sugars. Growing hyphae of necrotrophic fungal pathogens, such as …

The extracellular proteome, or secretome, of phytopathogenic fungi is presumed to be a key
element of their infection strategy. Especially interesting constituents of this set are those …

In this study, a necrosis-inducing protein was purified from the culture filtrate of the
necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea BC-98 strain. Secreted proteins were collected and …

Phytopathogenic fungi are one of the most damaging plant parasitic organisms, and can
cause serious diseases and important yield losses in crops. The study of the biology of these …

Neofusicoccum parvum is a fungal plant pathogen of a wide range of hosts but knowledge
about the virulence factors of N. parvum and host–pathogen interactions is rather limited …