Filamentous fungi are a large group of various 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 the plants, some key regulators of fungi perform respective functions to ensure the formation of fungi infectious structure like 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 fungus. In turn, plants activate immune responses to deal with the invasion of fungus. However, identification of essential regulators for fungus virulence and the specific interaction mechanisms between the fungus and the plants remains largely unknown.
This Research Topic aims to identify essential regulators that participate in the regulation of virulence of filamentous fungi, reveal their pathogenic mechanism and how they interact with the plants. Meanwhile, we also welcome submissions on plant resistance to the filamentous fungi and other related mechanism of plant resistance changes. We welcome both Original Research and Review papers that focus the molecular mechanism of key proteins on fungal virulence and their interaction with plants.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following
• Characterization of essential regulators of filamentous fungi virulence
• Identification of essential plant genes to fungi
• Mechanism of interaction between filamentous fungi and plants
• Plant resistance to filamentous fungi and other related mechanism of plant resistance changes
Filamentous fungi are a large group of various 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 the plants, some key regulators of fungi perform respective functions to ensure the formation of fungi infectious structure like 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 fungus. In turn, plants activate immune responses to deal with the invasion of fungus. However, identification of essential regulators for fungus virulence and the specific interaction mechanisms between the fungus and the plants remains largely unknown.
This Research Topic aims to identify essential regulators that participate in the regulation of virulence of filamentous fungi, reveal their pathogenic mechanism and how they interact with the plants. Meanwhile, we also welcome submissions on plant resistance to the filamentous fungi and other related mechanism of plant resistance changes. We welcome both Original Research and Review papers that focus the molecular mechanism of key proteins on fungal virulence and their interaction with plants.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following
• Characterization of essential regulators of filamentous fungi virulence
• Identification of essential plant genes to fungi
• Mechanism of interaction between filamentous fungi and plants
• Plant resistance to filamentous fungi and other related mechanism of plant resistance changes