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Signalling in Botrytis cinerea

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Botrytis: Biology, Pathology and Control

The cellular environment plays an important role in growth and differentiation of fungi. Signal transduction cascades mediate communication between environmental signals and the cellular machinery regulating developmental programmes. Fungal pathogens of plants have to ‘recognize’ their susceptible hosts, penetrate any physical barriers, overcome host defences and proliferate in the invaded tissues. Recent work has established that cyclic AMP (cAMP) and conserved MAP kinase signalling pathways play crucial roles during pathogenesis in several plant-infecting fungi, including Botrytis cinerea. In all fungal pathogens analyzed so far, it has been demonstrated that the knock-out of genes whose products encode components of signaling cascades interferes with pathogen development. This chapter summarizes the recent progress in studying the function of genes that code for signalling components in B. cinere

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Tudzynski, B., Gronover, C.S. (2007). Signalling in Botrytis cinerea. In: Elad, Y., Williamson, B., Tudzynski, P., Delen, N. (eds) Botrytis: Biology, Pathology and Control. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2626-3_6

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