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Article Addendum
Autophagic Cell Death and its Importance for Fungal Developmental Biology and Pathogenesis
Claire Veneault-Fourrey and Nicholas J. Talbot
volume 3 | issue 2
March/April 2007Pages: 126 - 127
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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.
Addendum to:
Autophagic Fungal Cell Death is Necessary for Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus
C. Veneault-Fourrey, M. Barooah, M. Egan, G. Wakley and N.J. Talbot
Science 2006; 312:580-3
Authors
Claire Veneault-Fourrey
University of Exeter
Nicholas J. Talbot
University of Exeter
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