Preliminary study on micro area based spatial distribution of powdery mildew in an organic apple orchard

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Mechanical and physical control in apple orchards as preventative fungal disease management

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Apple powdery mildew caused by Podosphaera leucotricha: some aspects of disease management

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Effect of year, sampling month and grape cultivar on noble rot incidence, mycelial growth rate and morphological type of Botrytis cinerea during noble rot development

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Influence of pesticide use on flower formation and fertility of some fruit species

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Role of organosilicone surfactant in apple scab control under scab conducive weather conditions

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Secondary metabolites in fungus-plant interactions

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Secondary metabolites in fungus-plant interactions

Fungi and plants are rich sources of thousands of secondary metabolites. The genetically coded possibilities for secondary metabolite production, the stimuli of the production, and the special phytotoxins basically determine the microscopic fungi-host plant interactions and the pathogenic lifestyle of fungi. The rewiew introduces plant secondary metabolites usually with antifungal effect as well as the importance of signaling molecules in induced systemic resistance and systemic acquired resistance processes. The review also concerns the mimicing of plant effector molecules like auxins, gibberellins and abscisic acid by fungal secondary metabolites that modulate plant growth or even can subvert the plant defense responses such as programmed cell death to gain nutrients for fungal growth and colonization. It also looks through the special secondary metabolite production and host selective toxins of some significant fungal pathogens and the plant response in form of phytoalexin production. New results coming from genome and transcriptional analyses in context of selected fungal pathogens and their hosts are also discussed