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CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue -, Pages 8-13Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2015.05.013
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- European Research Council under European Union's Seventh Framework Programme/ERC [294702]
- BBSRC [BB/J012157/1]
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/J012157/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Many plant pathogenic fungi have the capacity to breach the intact cuticles of their plant hosts using specialised infection cells called appressoria. These cells exert physical force to rupture the plant surface, or deploy enzymes in a focused way to digest the cuticle and plant cell wall. They also provide the means by which focal secretion of effectors occurs at the point of plant infection. Development of appressoria is linked to remodelling of the actin cytoskeleton, mediated by septin GTPases, and rapid cell wall differentiation. These processes are regulated by perception of plant cell surface components, and starvation stress, but also linked to cell cycle checkpoints that control the overall progression of infection-related development.
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