Autophagic Cell Death and its Importance for Fungal Developmental Biology and Pathogenesis

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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...

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