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Appressorium: The Breakthrough in Dikarya
Phytopathogenic and mycorrhizal fungi often penetrate living hosts by using appressoria and related structures. The differentiation of similar structures in saprotrophic fungi to penetrate dead plant biomass has seldom been investigated and has been reported only in the model fungus Podospora anseri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6787622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof5030072 |
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author | Demoor, Alexander Silar, Philippe Brun, Sylvain |
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description | Phytopathogenic and mycorrhizal fungi often penetrate living hosts by using appressoria and related structures. The differentiation of similar structures in saprotrophic fungi to penetrate dead plant biomass has seldom been investigated and has been reported only in the model fungus Podospora anserina. Here, we report on the ability of many saprotrophs from a large range of taxa to produce appressoria on cellophane. Most Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were able to form appressoria. In contrast, none of the three investigated Mucoromycotina was able to differentiate such structures. The ability of filamentous fungi to differentiate appressoria no longer belongs solely to pathogenic or mutualistic fungi, and this raises the question of the evolutionary origin of the appressorium in Eumycetes. |
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spelling | pubmed-67876222019-10-16 Appressorium: The Breakthrough in Dikarya Demoor, Alexander Silar, Philippe Brun, Sylvain J Fungi (Basel) Article Phytopathogenic and mycorrhizal fungi often penetrate living hosts by using appressoria and related structures. The differentiation of similar structures in saprotrophic fungi to penetrate dead plant biomass has seldom been investigated and has been reported only in the model fungus Podospora anserina. Here, we report on the ability of many saprotrophs from a large range of taxa to produce appressoria on cellophane. Most Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were able to form appressoria. In contrast, none of the three investigated Mucoromycotina was able to differentiate such structures. The ability of filamentous fungi to differentiate appressoria no longer belongs solely to pathogenic or mutualistic fungi, and this raises the question of the evolutionary origin of the appressorium in Eumycetes. MDPI 2019-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6787622/ /pubmed/31382649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof5030072 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Demoor, Alexander Silar, Philippe Brun, Sylvain Appressorium: The Breakthrough in Dikarya |
title | Appressorium: The Breakthrough in Dikarya |
title_full | Appressorium: The Breakthrough in Dikarya |
title_fullStr | Appressorium: The Breakthrough in Dikarya |
title_full_unstemmed | Appressorium: The Breakthrough in Dikarya |
title_short | Appressorium: The Breakthrough in Dikarya |
title_sort | appressorium: the breakthrough in dikarya |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6787622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof5030072 |
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