Potato blight (or potato late blight) is caused by a mildewlike fungus called Phytophthora infestans that can infect the potato foliage and its tubers. Although P. infestans is best known as a pathogen of the potato, this fungus also attacks the tomato...

Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete that causes the serious potato disease known as late blight or potato blight. (Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is also often called 'potato blight'). It was a major culprit in the 1845 Irish and 1846...

Plant pathogens breach the plant cell to reach the nutrients within and yet must also avoid detection by the plant defenses (reviewed in Huckelhoven, 2007). During infection, fungal and oomycete pathogens make new cell wall and at the same time break down the host...

Cellulose, the important structuralcompound of cell walls, provides strength and rigidity to cells of numerous organisms. Here, wefunctionally characterize four cellulose synthase genes (CesA) in the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of potato (Solanum tuberosum) late blight. Three members of thisnewprotein...