Varahalarao Vadlapudi and K Chandrasekhar Naidu
Fungi are eukaryotic, carbon-heterotrophic microorganisms. Plants, like humans and other animals, also get sick, exhibit disease symptoms, and die. What are the determinants of fungal pathogenicity towards plants? A number of fungal mechanisms and molecules have been shown to contribute to fungal pathogenicity or virulence, understood as the capacity to cause damage in a host, in absolute or relative terms. Among them, cell wall degrading proteins, inhibitory proteins and toxins are included. Small secreted proteins and Pheromone also play important and even decisive roles in these processes. This is a short review makes an overview and summarizes the contribution of the most recent knowledge of molecules helping in pathogenesis of fungal biology.
