Mechanisms of nutrient acquisition and utilization during fungal infections of leaves

Jessie Fernandez, Margarita Marroquin-Guzman, Richard A. Wilson

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

60 Scopus citations

Abstract

Foliar fungal pathogens challenge global food security, but how they optimize growth and development during infection is understudied. Despite adopting several lifestyles to facilitate nutrient acquisition from colonized cells, little is known about the genetic underpinnings governing pathogen adaption to host-derived nutrients. Homologs of common global and pathway-specific gene regulatory elements are likely to be involved, but their contribution to pathogenicity, and how they are connected to broader genetic networks, is largely unspecified. Here, we focus on carbon and nitrogen metabolism in foliar pathogens and consider what is known, and what is not known, about fungal exploitation of host nutrient and ask how common metabolic regulators have been co-opted to the plant-pathogenic lifestyle as well as how nutrients are utilized to drive infection.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)155-174
Number of pages20
JournalAnnual Review of Phytopathology
Volume52
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2014

Keywords

  • Biotroph
  • Genetic regulation
  • Glucose metabolism
  • Hemibiotroph
  • Nitrogen metabolism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Plant Science

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Mechanisms of nutrient acquisition and utilization during fungal infections of leaves'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this