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Yeast and filamentous forms of the maize pathogen Ustilago maydis.
U. maydis is a basidiomycete dimorphic phytopathogen that grows as yeast-like cells on rich media cultures and is able to grow in a polarized manner under specific conditions such as charcoal-containing media or on the maize surface. This morphological transition is essential for its virulence capacity, as occurs in many other fungal pathogens. The general transcriptional repressor Tup1 is required for this process. The image shows a mixture of wild-type YFP labeled cells (yellow, filamentous) co-inoculated with a tup1 CFP mutant strain (cyan, yeast) on charcoal-containing media (see Elías-Villalobos et al., doi: 10.1371/journal. ppat.1002235).
Image Credit: Alberto Elías-Villalobos, Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
Citation: (2011) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 7(9) September 2011. PLoS Pathog 7(9): ev07.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v07.i09
Published: September 29, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Elías-Villalobos. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
U. maydis is a basidiomycete dimorphic phytopathogen that grows as yeast-like cells on rich media cultures and is able to grow in a polarized manner under specific conditions such as charcoal-containing media or on the maize surface. This morphological transition is essential for its virulence capacity, as occurs in many other fungal pathogens. The general transcriptional repressor Tup1 is required for this process. The image shows a mixture of wild-type YFP labeled cells (yellow, filamentous) co-inoculated with a tup1 CFP mutant strain (cyan, yeast) on charcoal-containing media (see Elías-Villalobos et al., doi:10.1371/journal. ppat.1002235).
Image Credit: Alberto Elías-Villalobos, Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain