title: Interactions between Verticillium dahliae and its host: vegetative growth, pathogenicity, plant immunity.
abstract: Verticillium dahliae is a soil-borne phytopathogenic fungus that causes vascular wilt diseases in a wide variety of crop plants, resulting in extensive economic losses. In the past 5 years, progress has been made in elaborating the interaction between this hemibiotrophic fungus and its host plants. Some genes responsible for the vegetative growth and/or pathogenicity in V. dahliae have been identified. Plants have accrued a series of defense mechanisms, including inducible defense signaling pathways and some resistant genes to combat V. dahliae infection. Here, we have reviewed the progress in V. dahliae-plant interaction research.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Eco-Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), Southwest University, Beibei District, Chongqing, 400715, China.
authors.forename: Xiumei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Chengjian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Jinyan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Xingyong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Anping
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sui
mesh_terms: D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D057865:Plant Immunity; D010944:Plants / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D020172:Verticillium / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology*