Asynchronous development of Zymoseptoria tritici infection in wheat.

We describe 6 morphologically distinct developmental stages, and determine their abundance in infected leaves, with time post inoculation. This demonstrates that 3-5 stages co-exist in infected tissues at any given time. Thus, later stages of pathogen development also occur asynchronously amongst the population of infecting cells. This merits consideration when interpreting transcriptomics or proteomics data gathered from infected plants.
PMID: 33326850 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Fungal Genetics and Biology - December 13, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: Fantozzi E, Kilaru S, Gurr SJ, Steinberg G Tags: Fungal Genet Biol Source Type: research