Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a devastating plant pathogen that causes substantial losses in various agricultural crops. Although plants have developed some well-known defense mechanisms against invasive fungi, much remains to be learned about responses fungal pathogens. In this study, we investigated how S. infection affects primary and secondary metabolism the model Arabidopsis thaliana. Our re...

Zeng, Hongjie Xie, Stuart Birnbaum, Lilin Liu , Weiran Yang 4 , Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, 78249, U.S.A., [email protected], Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P.R.China, [email protected], Space Center, China University of Geosciences, Tectonomechanical Research Center, China Universi...

Stem rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in many important dicotyledonous crops, including oilseed rape (Brassica napus), is one of the most devastating fungal diseases and imposes huge yield loss each year worldwide. Currently, breeding for Sclerotinia resistance in B. napus, as in other crops, can only rely on germplasms with quantitative resistance genes. Thus, the identification of quant...

Mycoviruses are usually transmitted horizontally via hyphal anastomosis and vertically via sexual/asexual spores. Previously, we reported that a gemycircularvirus, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum hypovirulence-associated DNA virus 1 (SsHADV-1), could infect its fungal host extracellularly. Here, we discovered that SsHADV-1 could infect a mycophagous insect, Lycoriella ingenua, and use it as a transmis...

Fiona Burnell,1 Xie Chen,2,3 Alexei Kitaev,2 Max Metlitski,4 and Ashvin Vishwanath3,5 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA 2Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 3Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 9...

Confidence Distributions and a Unifying Framework for Meta-Analysis Minge Xie, Kesar Singh and William E. Strawderman Minge Xie , Kesar Singh , and William E. Strawderman are Professors of Statistics, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854. This research is partly supported by research grants from NSF (DMS0915139, SES0851521) and NSA (H98230-08-1-01...

Cut roses are highly valuable ornamentals and their profitability depends on the flower postharvest performance. Bent neck symptoms in make them unmarketable typically related to physiological disorders, bacteria accumulation vase solution, Botrytis cinerea infection. Unusual bent were observed 4.7% of ‘Orange Crush’ from two commercial shipments, resulting complete collapse. This research was ...

Non-self recognition is a common phenomenon among organisms; it often leads to innate immunity to prevent the invasion of parasites and maintain the genetic polymorphism of organisms. Fungal vegetative incompatibility is a type of non-self recognition which often induces programmed cell death (PCD) and restricts the spread of molecular parasites. It is not clearly known whether virus infection ...

Fungal plant pathogens produce secreted proteins adapted to function outside fungal cells to facilitate colonization of their hosts. In many cases such as for fungi from the Sclerotiniaceae family the repertoire and function of secreted proteins remains elusive. In the Sclerotiniaceae, whereas Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea are cosmopolitan broad host-range plant pathogens, Scler...