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Limits of Symptom‐Based Inference in Fungal Plant Disease: Latency, Quiescence and Dormancy

Plant Pathology, Volume 75, Issue 5, September‐October 2026.
Symptomless fungal infections are not biologically uniform. Latency, quiescence and dormancy represent distinct biological states with different implications for interpreting infection, symptom development and epidemic emergence. Recognising these distinctions reduces reliance on symptom‐based inference in fungal plant disease. ABSTRACT In fungal plant
Tamilarasan Thangavel, Joshua J. Knight
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Transformation and regeneration of the holoparasitic plant Phelipanche aegyptiaca

Plant Methods, 2011
Background Transformation and subsequent regeneration of holoparasitic plants has never been reported, in part due to challenges in developing transformation protocols, but also because regeneration of obligate parasites is difficult since their survival
Fernández-Aparicio Mónica, Rubiales Diego, Bandaranayake Pradeepa CG, Yoder John I, Westwood James H   +4 more
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Tandem Kinase WTK1 Triggers Waves of Transcriptional Reprogramming Underlying Wheat Resistance to Stripe Rust

Physiologia Plantarum, Volume 178, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Tandem kinases are emerging regulators of plant immunity, but the downstream defense programs they activate remain poorly understood. Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a major constraint on global wheat production. The Yr15 resistance gene, derived from wild emmer wheat, encodes the tandem kinase protein WTK1.
Liubov Govta, Nikolai Govta, Evgenii Potapenko, Hanan Sela, Gitta Coaker, Tzion Fahima   +5 more
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Soil Phosphorus Availability Modulates Host Selectivity of Pedicularis kansuensis Between Legumes and Grasses

Plants
Host selectivity or preference plays a critical role in enabling parasitic plants to identify suitable hosts and influence plant community dynamics. Phosphorus (P) is known to affect the growth of root hemiparasitic plants and their interaction with ...
Xiaolin Sui, Ruijuan Xue, Airong Li
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Analysis of Barley Leaf Epidermis and Extrahaustorial Proteomes During Powdery Mildew Infection Reveals That the PR5 Thaumatin-Like Protein TLP5 Is Required for Susceptibility Towards Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019
Powdery mildews are biotrophic pathogens causing fungal diseases in many economically important crops, including cereals, which are affected by Blumeria graminis.
Sebastien Lambertucci, Kate Mary Orman, Shaoli Das Gupta, James Paul Fisher, Snehi Gazal, Ryan Joshua Williamson, Rainer Cramer, Laurence Véronique Bindschedler   +7 more
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Hemiparasitic Castilleja presence is correlated with increased plant biodiversity across montane plant communities

American Journal of Botany, Volume 113, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Premise Root hemiparasites form haustoria in belowground roots of hosts to extract nutrients and water from the surrounding hosts. Through parasitic symbiosis, these plants disproportionately affect plant communities relative to their abundance by reducing host size, altering nutrient flow, and eventually increasing local biodiversity.
Jordan C. Argrett, Makena Lang, Anders Hastings, Y. Anny Chung, Nina Wurzburger, Charles F. Williams   +5 more
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Accelerated Haustoria Segmentation Enables Rapid Gene Function Analysis in Cereal–Powdery Mildew Pathosystems

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Reliable, high-throughput quantification of early fungal infection events is crucial for gene function studies, but it remains labor-intensive. We report an openly available pipeline that automates the detection of β-glucuronidase (GUS)-stained epidermal
Stefanie Lück, Deniz Demirhan, Laura Agsten, Ahmed Raza Khan, Oksana Maier, Dimitar K. Douchkov   +5 more
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Decoding MAPK cascades in plant immunity: Activation, regulation, integration, and pathogen manipulation

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Volume 68, Issue 8, Page 3000-3024, August 2026.
This review focuses on mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation and summarizes how plants regulate and integrate MAPK signaling in modulating plant immune responses. It also examines the effectors pathogens have evolved to manipulate MAPK activation and thereby inhibit plant immunity.
Guitao Zhong, Zhanchun Wang, Dingzhong Tang, Wei Wang   +3 more
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Risk versus reward: host dependent parasite mortality rates and phenotypes in the facultative generalist Triphysaria versicolor

BMC Plant Biology, 2019
Background Parasitic plants engage in a complex molecular dialog with potential host plants to identify a host and overcome host defenses to initiate development of the parasitic feeding organ, the haustorium, invade host tissues, and withdraw water and ...
Loren A. Honaas, Sam Jones, Nina Farrell, William Kamerow, Huiting Zhang, Kathryn Vescio, Naomi S. Altman, John I. Yoder, Claude W. dePamphilis   +8 more
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An Investigation into the Involvement of Defense Signaling Pathways in Components of the Nonhost Resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana to Rust Fungi Also Reveals a Model System for Studying Rust Fungal Compatibility

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2003
Seventeen accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana inoculated with the cowpea rust fungus Uromyces vignae exhibited a variety of expressions of nonhost resistance, although infection hypha growth typically ceased before the formation of the first haustorium ...
Denny G. Mellersh, Michèle C. Heath
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