Transcriptional switching of host defence response to combat hemibiotrophic fungal infection

• Main Authors: Abdullah, Siti Nor A., A. Bahari, Mohammad Nazri, M. Sakeh, Nurshafika
• Format: Article
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102494/; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119312994.apr0790
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Hemibiotrophic fungal pathogens cause major destruction to food and industrial crops globally. Their dual infection phases appear to be a winning strategy. The pathogen establishes an initial colonisation biotrophically keeping the host cells alive. It then shifts to the notorious necrotrophic mode...