What is it about?
Magnaporthe oryzae is a fungus causing rice blast. The fungal development and virulence were regulated by transcription factors. Here, we have shown the regulatory roles of C2H2 family transcription factors systematically, and found many C2H2 transcritpion factor genes required for growth, conidiation, appressorium formation, virulence, and lipid metabolism in this fungus.
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Why is it important?
Vrf1 is a first reported fungal transcription factor which regulates appressorium maturation. Among fungi, CreA is firstly found to regulate lipid catabolism negatively. CON7 is found to regulate conidial morphology in the fungus. Vrf2 regulates fungal invading process especially.
Perspectives
This publication will help us to promote the building of a complex regulatory network that controls fungal development and virulence.
Dr Jianping Lu
Zhejiang University
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This page is a summary of: Characterization of 47 Cys
2
‐His
2
zinc finger proteins required for the development and pathogenicity of the rice blast fungus
Magnaporthe oryzae, New Phytologist, April 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13948.
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