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Review
. 2012;8(11):e1002955.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002955. Epub 2012 Nov 1.

Ustilago maydis: dissecting the molecular interface between pathogen and plant

Armin Djamei  1 , Regine Kahmann
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Ustilago maydis: dissecting the molecular interface between pathogen and plant

Armin Djamei et al. PLoS Pathog. 2012.
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Disease symptoms and schematic presentation of effector cocktail use in different maize organs and tissues infected by U. maydis.
A) Confocal microscopy of a U. maydis strain expressing cytosolic mRFP (yellow arrows) during intracellular growth in epidermal maize cells expressing PIN-YFP as a plasma membrane marker (white arrows). B) U. maydis tumor on field-grown maize plant (picture kindly provided by S. Krombach). C–F depict schematically the different tissues infected by U. maydis (the width of the interaction zone between hyphae and host plasma membrane is not drawn to scale): C) epidermal cell of an infected maize seedling (light green); D) epidermal cell of an infected mature leaf (yellow); E) epidermal cell of infected tassel (orange; F) epidermal cell (light green) and mesophyll cells (dark green) of infected seedling. Core effectors, organ-specific effectors, and cell type–specific effectors with either apoplastic or cytoplasmic function inside plant cells are indicated with different symbols.
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