Publications by authors named "Milan Gagic"
Article Synopsis
- Asexual endophytic fungi help certain grass plants survive tough conditions and can pass from parent plants to their seeds, but not all seeds get infected.
- Researchers looked at how different types of perennial ryegrass transmitted these fungi, finding that some plants did better than others.
- The study found that plants that didn't transmit the fungi as well were better at fighting off the fungi, as their defense genes were more active, leading to lower amounts of the fungi in their seeds.
Vertical transmission of symbiotic endophytes from host grasses into progeny seed is the primary mechanism by which the next generation of plants is colonized. This process is often imperfect, resulting in endophyte-free seedlings which may have poor ecological fitness if the endophyte confers protective benefits to its host. In this study, we investigated the influence of host genetics and environment on the vertical transmission of var.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe seed-transmitted fungal symbiont, , colonizes grasses by infecting host tissues as they form on the shoot apical meristem (SAM) of the seedling. How this fungus accommodates the complexities of plant development to successfully colonize the leaves and inflorescences is unclear. Since adenosine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent signaling is often essential for host colonization by fungal pathogens, we disrupted the cAMP cascade by insertional mutagenesis of the adenylate cyclase gene ().
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