Yoshitaka Takano

TL;DR: These guidelines are presented for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macroautophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: Findings show that preinvasion perception of plant-derived signals substantially reprograms fungal gene expression and indicate previously unknown functions for particular fungal cell types.

TL;DR: This large-scale study found significantly more presence/absence polymorphisms than nucleotide polymorphisms among 1032 putative secreted protein genes in M. oryzae isolates, corresponding to five previously known AVR genes, whose products are recognized inside rice cells possessing the cognate R genes.

TL;DR: Identifying expanded classes of genes in the genomes of phytopathogenic Colletotrichum, especially those associated with specific stages of hemibiotrophy, can provide insights on how these pathogens infect a large number of hosts.

TL;DR: Germinating conidia of cmk1 mutants fail to form appressoria and the mutants are unable to grow invasively in the host plant, which strongly suggests that MAP kinase signaling pathways have general significance for infection structure formation and pathogenic growth in phytopathogenic fungi.