The aim of this review was to survey all fungal pathologists with an association with the journal
Molecular Plant Pathology and ask them to nominate which fungal pathogens they would …

The plant-pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola (asexual stage: Septoria tritici)
causes septoria tritici blotch, a disease that greatly reduces the yield and quality of wheat. This …

Innate immunity, an ancient form of defense against microbial infection, is well described for
animals and is also suggested to be important for plants. Discrimination from self is …

Secreted effector proteins enable plant pathogenic fungi to manipulate host defenses for
successful infection. Mycosphaerella graminicola causes Septoria tritici blotch disease of wheat …

Considerable advances have been made, both in the technologies available to study
changes in intracellular cytosolic free Ca 2+ ([Ca 2+ ] i ), and in our understanding of Ca 2+ …

The hemibiotrophic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici causes Septoria tritici blotch disease of
wheat (Triticum aestivum). Pathogen reproduction on wheat occurs without cell penetration, …

Many important fungal pathogens of plants spend long periods (days to weeks) of their infection
cycle in symptomless association with living host tissue, followed by a sudden transition …

Deployment of fast-evolving disease-resistance genes is one of the most successful strategies
used by plants to fend off pathogens 1, 2. In gene-for-gene relationships, most cloned …

Fungal cell-wall chitin is a well-recognized pathogen-associated molecular pattern.
Recognition of chitin in plants by pattern recognition receptors activates pathogen-triggered …

Analysis of the fully sequenced genome of the wheat leaf-specific fungal pathogen
Mycosphaerella graminicola identified only a single gene encoding a member of the necrosis- and …