Open AccessFungal pathogenicity genes in the age of ‘omics’
Author(s) -
VAN DE WOUW ANGELA P.,
HOWLETT BARBARA J.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
molecular plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.945
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1364-3703
pISSN - 1464-6722
DOI - 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2010.00680.x
Subject(s) - biology , gene , identification (biology) , pathogenicity , disease , genome , computational biology , genetics , fungal disease , microbiology and biotechnology , botany , medicine , pathology
SUMMARY The identification of the fungal genes essential for disease underpins the development of disease control strategies. Improved technologies for gene identification and functional analyses, as well as a plethora of sequenced fungal genomes, have led to the characterization of hundreds of genes, denoted as pathogenicity genes, which are required by fungi to cause disease. We describe recent technologies applied to characterize the fungal genes involved in disease and focus on some genes that are likely to attract continuing research activity.