Autophagic cell death and its importance for fungal developmental biology and pathogenesis |
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Authors: | Veneault-Fourrey Claire Talbot Nicholas J |
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Institution: | University of Exeter, School of Biosciences, Exeter, UK. |
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Abstract: | In order to cause disease in plants, many fungal pathogens develop a specialized structure called an appressorium. We have recently shown that the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea undergoes a regulated form of programmed cell death during appressorium development involving autophagy. Significantly, this form of cell death is a prerequisite for plant infection and fungal pathogenesis and part of a growing body of evidence implicating autophagy as a key process in fungal developmental biology. |
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