Pathogenic Mechanism of Plant Pathogenic Fungi
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 367
Special Issue Editors
Interests: virulence of filamentous fungi and their interaction with plants; related plant resistance
Interests: pathogenic fungi
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Filamentous fungi are a large group that contains diverse kinds of both human and plant pathogenic fungi such as Aspergillus fumigatus, Ustilago maydis, and Magnaporthe oryzae. For plants, filamentous fungi cause huge economic losses to cultivated crops worldwide. To successfully infect plants, some key regulators of fungi perform respective functions to ensure the formation of fungi infectious structures such as appressorium and interference with plant immunity. For instance, the rice blast fungus M. oryzae, uses the special infectious dome-shaped appressorium and some effector proteins to guarantee and promote the infection of fungi. In turn, plants activate immune responses to deal with the invasion of fungi. However, identification of essential regulators for fungus virulence and the specific interaction mechanism between the fungus and the plants remains largely unknown.
Dr. Xinyu Liu
Dr. Yanhan Dong
Dr. Ziyi Yin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fungus development
- pathogenicity
- interaction of fungi and plants
- plant immunity
- plant resistance variation
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