Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most devastating pathogenic fungi that affects a wide
range of cereal plants, especially rice. Rice blast disease causes substantial economic …

Plant pathogenic fungi utilize a series of complex infection structures, in particular the
appressorium, to gain entry to and colonize plant tissue. As a consequence of the …

Because of great challenges and workload in deleting genes on a large scale, the functions
of most genes in pathogenic fungi are still unclear. In this study, we developed a high …

Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process in eukaryotes, which is regulated by
autophagy-related genes (ATGs). Arthrobotrys oligospora is a representative species of …

Autophagy is a conserved cellular recycling and trafficking pathway in eukaryotic cells and
has been reported to be important in the virulence of a number of microbial pathogens …

Magnaporthe oryzae, the ascomycete fungus that causes rice blast disease, initiates
conidiation in response to light when grown on Prune-Agar medium containing both carbon …

Autophagy is a conserved cellular recycling and trafficking pathway in eukaryotes that plays
an important role in cell growth, development, and pathogenicity. Atg1 and Atg13 form the …

Rice blast is a devastating disease worldwide, threatening rice production and food security.
The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae invades the host via the appressorium, a specialized …

Filamentous fungi consist of continuum of multinucleate cells called hyphae, and proliferate
by means of hyphal tip growth. Accordingly, research interest has been focusing on hyphal …

Atg4 is a unique cysteine protease responsible for the cleavage of the carboxyl terminus of
Atg8 during the formation of autophagosomes in yeast. Here we report that MoAtg4, an Atg4 …