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    An appressorium is a specialized cell typical of many fungal plant pathogens that is used to infect host plants. It is a flattened, hyphal "pressing" organ...
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    form a structure called an appressorium that evolved to puncture plant tissues. The pressure generated by the appressorium, directed against the plant...
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    three stages: spore germination, hyphal growth, host recognition and appressorium formation. Spores of the AM fungi are thick-walled multi-nucleate resting...
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    and culm nodes. Using a structure called an appressorium, the pathogen penetrates the plant. The appressorium cell wall is chitinous and its inner side...
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    hyphal tip produces an infection structure called an appressorium. From the underside of an appressorium, a slender hypha grows downward to infect plant cells...
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    germ tube which develops an appressorium, or 'pressing' organ. As the germ tube grows, it pulls the spore and the appressorium together, causing an indentation...
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    Markus; Hildebrandt, Ulrich (2017). "Very-long-chain aldehydes induce appressorium formation in ascospores of the wheat powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis"...
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    stomata, or penetrate directly through the top of the leaf, using its appressorium, infecting the leaf within 12 hours. At the cellular level, AAL produces...
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    The spores produce an appressorium which in turn produces a penetration peg. This hypha grows from bottom of the appressorium and works its way through...
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    2013-08-21. Zhu, M.; et al. (2017). "Very-long-chain aldehydes induce appressorium formation in ascospores of the wheat powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis"...
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  • into the walls of the appressorium to create turgor pressure in the appressorium. The melanin allows water into the appressorium cell but nothing out....
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    then penetrated either directly with a germ tube or indirectly using an appressorium, thus initiating a new infection. Shortly after penetration, light-green...
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    appressed Flattened, or closely applied; e.g. of scales or fibers. appressorium A swelling at the end of a germ tube or other hypha that adheres to the...
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    conidia. F. Direct penetration of the germ tube through a stoma. G. Appressorium-like structure formed in the antestomatal chamber. H. Secondary conidia...
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  • surprise premō -primō prem- -prim- press- press- press, push appress, appressorium, compress, compressible, compression, compressional, compressive, compressor...
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    other fungi using lectins on the host fungi as a receptor, forming an appressorium. Once this is formed, Trichoderma inject toxic enzymes into the host...
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    gloeosporioides conidium lands upon a susceptible host it will first produce an appressorium. This specialized structure allows the pathogen to penetrate the host...
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    attach to the plant by which through growth they begin to produce an appressorium which penetrates the plant cell and allows for the pathogen to obtain...
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    form a structure called an appressorium that evolved to puncture plant tissues. The pressure generated by the appressorium, directed against the plant...
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    disease. Once the rice sheath has been inoculated, the pathogen forms an appressorium and infection cushions. Both intercellular and intracellular hyphae are...
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    Germination of the sporangia is usually by means of a germ tube which forms an appressorium to penetrate epidermal cells or it enters through a stoma. Zoospore formation...
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  • stomata, or penetrate directly through the top of the leaf, using its appressorium, infecting the leaf within 12 hours. In the orchard, Alternaria citri...
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    its host, as does Blasiphalia. Instead, Rickenella produces a small appressorium or no appressoria and penetrates the rhizoids of its moss hosts, growing...
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    the appressorium appears the same, as a simple swelling at the end of a hypha, closely appressed to the eggshell. Adhesion between the appressorium and...
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    for photosynthesis. Following conidia germination, the fungus forms an appressorium, which penetrates the corn leaf cell directly using an infection hypha...
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    teres) makes up to 3 conidia per conidiophore. It infects plants with an appressorium. It grows bio-trophically in the first infected plant cell, but then...
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  • cause infection by penetrating the plant with its infectious pegs called appressorium, allowing the hyphae to grow in and between the host cells, resulting...
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    land on leaf surfaces and begin to produce lesions by infection from appressorium and infection peg. The lesions initially formed by ascospores, known...
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    extracellular pre-penetration processes (adhesion, germination, and appressorium formation 2) intercellular post-penetration processes (nutrient acquisition...
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    produce a single germ tube that grows across the leaf surface, until an appressorium forms. Appressoria form over anticlinal walls or over the center of epidermal...
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