APA
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Osés-Ruiz, M., Martin-Urdiroz, M., Soanes, D., Kershaw, M. J., Cruz-Mireles, N., Valdovinos-Ponce, G., … Talbot, N. (2020). A hierarchical transcriptional network controls appressorium-mediated plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. BioRxiv.
Chicago/Turabian
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Osés-Ruiz, Míriam, Magdalena Martin-Urdiroz, D. Soanes, M. J. Kershaw, Neftaly Cruz-Mireles, G. Valdovinos-Ponce, Camilla Molinari, et al. “A Hierarchical Transcriptional Network Controls Appressorium-Mediated Plant Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe Oryzae.” bioRxiv (2020).
MLA
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Osés-Ruiz, Míriam, et al. “A Hierarchical Transcriptional Network Controls Appressorium-Mediated Plant Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe Oryzae.” BioRxiv, 2020.
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@article{m2020a,
title = {A hierarchical transcriptional network controls appressorium-mediated plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae},
year = {2020},
journal = {bioRxiv},
author = {Osés-Ruiz, Míriam and Martin-Urdiroz, Magdalena and Soanes, D. and Kershaw, M. J. and Cruz-Mireles, Neftaly and Valdovinos-Ponce, G. and Molinari, Camilla and Littlejohn, George R. and Derbyshire, P. and Menke, Frank L. H. and Valent, B. and Talbot, N.}
}
Rice blast is a pervasive and devastating disease that threatens rice production across the world. In spite of its importance to global food security, however, the underlying biology of plant infection by the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae remains poorly understood. In particular, it is unclear how the fungus elaborates a specialised infection cell, the appressorium, in response to surface signals from the rice leaf. Here, we report the identification of a network of temporally co-regulated transcription factors that act downstream of the Pmk1 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway to regulate gene expression during appressorium-mediated plant infection. We have functionally characterised this network of transcription factors and demonstrated the operation of a hierarchical transcriptional control system. We show that this tiered regulatory mechanism involves Pmk1-dependent phosphorylation of the Hox7 homeobox transcription factor, which represses hyphal-associated gene expression and simultaneously induces major physiological changes required for appressorium development, including cell cycle arrest, autophagic cell death, turgor generation and melanin biosynthesis. Mst12 then regulates gene functions involved in septin-dependent cytoskeletal re-organisation, polarised exocytosis and effector gene expression necessary for plant tissue invasion.