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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 37, Pages 15967-15972Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901477106
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appressorium; fungus; plant pathogen
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- BBSRC [BB/E022677/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E022677/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E022677/1] Funding Source: Medline
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To cause rice blast disease, the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae elaborates specialized infection structures called appressoria, which use enormous turgor to rupture the tough outer cuticle of a rice leaf. Here, we report the generation of a set of 22 isogenic M. oryzae mutants each differing by a single component of the predicted autophagic machinery of the fungus. Analysis of this set of targeted deletion mutants demonstrated that loss of any of the 16 genes necessary for nonselective macroautophagy renders the fungus unable to cause rice blast disease, due to impairment of both conidial programmed cell death and appressorium maturation. In contrast, genes necessary only for selective forms of autophagy, such as pexophagy and mitophagy, are dispensable for appressorium-mediated plant infection. A genome-wide analysis therefore demonstrates the importance of infection-associated, nonselective autophagy for the establishment of rice blast disease.
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