Cell Biology of Zymoseptoria Tritici: Pathogen Cell Organization and Wheat Infection

Overview

Journal Fungal Genet Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics
Microbiology

Date 2015 Jun 21

PMID 26092785

Citations 50

Authors

Gero Steinberg

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Abstract

Cell biological research in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici (formerly Mycosphaerella graminicola) has led to a good understanding of the histology of the infection process. Expression profiling and bioinformatic approaches, combined with molecular studies on signaling pathways, effectors and potential necrosis factors provides first insight into the complex interplay between the host and the pathogen. Cell biological studies will help to further our understanding of the infection strategy of the fungus. The cellular organization and intracellular dynamics of the fungus itself is largely unexplored. Insight into essential cellular processes within the pathogen will expand our knowledge of the basic biology of Z. tritici, thereby providing putative new anti-fungal targets.

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