Plant surface cues prime Ustilago maydis for biotrophic development.

Infection-related development of phytopathogenic fungi is initiated by sensing and responding to plant surface cues. This response can result in the formation of specialized infection structures, so-called appressoria. To unravel the program inducing filaments and appressoria in the biotrophic smut...

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Main Authors: Daniel Lanver, Patrick Berndt, Marie Tollot, Vikram Naik, Miroslav Vranes, Tobias Warmann, Karin Münch, Nicole Rössel, Regine Kahmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4102580?pdf=render