Publications by F J Pieterse

Publications by authors named "F J Pieterse"

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Botrytis cinerea combines four molecular strategies to tolerate membrane-permeating plant compounds and to increase virulence.

Yaohua You H M Suraj Linda Matz A Lorena Herrera Valderrama Paul Ruigrok Frank P J Pieterse

Nat Commun

July 2024

Article Synopsis

Saponins are toxic compounds found in plants that help defend against pests and pathogens, with known mechanisms for fungal resistance focused on enzyme secretion.
Researchers investigated how the fungus Botrytis cinerea tolerates specific saponins from tomato and Digitalis purpurea, discovering four mechanisms that help it overcome the toxicity.
One novel mechanism involves enzymatic deglycosylation, while the others function in the fungal membrane, suggesting implications for understanding tolerance in both plant pathogenic fungi and potential human pathogens.

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Auxin-sensitive elements from promoters of tobacco GST genes and a consensus as-1-like element differ only in relative strength.

B J van der Zaal F N Droog F J Pieterse P J Hooykaas

Plant Physiol

January 1996

We have investigated the cis-acting potential of several as elements (20-bp as-1/ocs-like sequences) in both yeast and plant cells. These TGACG[N7]TGACG-resembling elements were surprisingly similar with respect to their ability to confer inducibility by auxins and related compounds to a heterologous TATA box in stably transformed plant cells. Both in plant cells and in yeast it was found that differences between as elements were of a quantitative nature.

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