Fungi have developed a plethora of strategies to colonize plants, and these interactions
result in a broad spectrum of outcomes ranging from beneficial interactions to death of the …

Plants inhabit environments crowded with infectious microbes that pose constant threats to
their survival. Necrotrophic pathogens are notorious for their aggressive and wide-ranging …

Melatonin acts as a crucial signaling molecule with multiple physiological functions in plant
response to abiotic and biotic stresses. However, the impact and regulatory mechanism of …

The necrotrophic plant‐pathogen fungus Botrytis cinerea produces multicellular appressoria
dedicated to plant penetration, named infection cushions (IC). A microarray analysis was …

Phytopathogens are responsible for great losses in agriculture, once they are able to subvert
or elude the host defense mechanisms through virulence factors secretion for their …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play fundamental roles in plant responses to pathogen
infection, including modulation of cell death processes and defense‐related gene …

Covering: 2014 up to the third quarter of 2019 Entomopathogens constitute a unique,
specialized trophic subgroup of fungi, most of whose members belong to the order …

Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) play an important role in defense responses to
biotic and abiotic stresses. In order to investigate the role of SlMAPK3 in tomato plant …

The fungal pathogen B otrytis cinerea establishes a necrotrophic interaction with its host
plants, including lettuce (L actuca sativa), causing it to wilt, collapse and eventually dry up …

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 …