Horizontal Chromosome Transfer, a Mechanism for the Evolution and Differentiation of a Plant-Pathogenic Fungus

Yasunori Akagi, Hajime Akamatsu, Hiroshi Otani, +1

Eukaryotic Cell

Plant GeneticsGeneticsPlant PathologyGenomicsNew Pathogens +14

Taxonomic study of Favolus and Neofavolus gen. nov. segregated from Polyporus (Basidiomycota, Polyporales)

Kozue Sotome, Yasunori Akagi, Su See Lee, +2

Fungal Diversity

Chromosome constitution of hybrid strains constructed by protoplast fusion between the tomato and strawberry pathotypes of Alternaria alternata

Yasunori Akagi, Masatoki Taga, Mikihiro Yamamoto, +4

Journal of General Plant Pathology

BiologyPlant GeneticsHybridisationHybridizationGenetics +9

Characterization of Trichoderma species isolated in Ecuador and their antagonistic activities against phytopathogenic fungi from Ecuador and Japan

Luis Galarza, Yasunori Akagi, Kazumi Takao, +6

Journal of General Plant Pathology

Fungal DiversityFungal PathogenTrichoderma SpeciesAntagonistic ActivitiesPhytopathogenic Fungi +5

Evolution of pathogenicity controlled by small, dispensable chromosomes in Alternaria alternata pathogens

Takashi Tsuge, Yoshiaki Harimoto, Kosuke Hanada, +4

Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology

BiologyDispensable ChromosomesReverse GeneticsNatural SciencesGenetics +9

Functional analysis of the melanin biosynthesis genes ALM1 and BRM2-1 in the tomato pathotype of Alternaria alternata

Ahmed A. Kheder, Yasunori Akagi, Hajime Akamatsu, +5

Journal of General Plant Pathology

BiologyPlant BiologyPlant GeneticsBiosynthesisEngineering +11

The global regulator LaeA controls biosynthesis of host-specific toxins, pathogenicity and development of Alternaria alternata pathotypes

Kazumi Takao, Yasunori Akagi, Takashi Tsuge, +3

Journal of General Plant Pathology

BiologyHost-specific ToxinsMicrobial ToxinBiosynthesisEngineering +10

Clues to an Evolutionary Mystery: The Genes for T-Toxin, Enabler of the Devastating 1970 Southern Corn Leaf Blight Epidemic, Are Present in Ancestral Species, Suggesting an Ancient Origin

Bradford Condon, Candace E. Elliott, Jonathan B. González, +5

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

ToxinologyRace TGeneticsPlant PathologyMolecular Genetics +20