Publications by authors named "Rafael Palos-Fernandez"
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- - Fungal diseases caused by *Fusarium oxysporum* lead to significant agricultural losses, and controlling these pathogens is challenging due to limited understanding of their nutrient acquisition during host colonization.
- - The study identifies the transcriptional regulator Mac1 as crucial for copper acquisition in *F. oxysporum*, influencing its growth and ability to infect host plants like tomatoes and other organisms.
- - By discovering that overexpressing specific copper-related genes can restore pathogenicity in a mac1 mutant, this research opens new avenues for developing strategies to protect crops from fungal infections.
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways control fundamental aspects of growth and development in fungi. In the soil-inhabiting ascomycete , which causes vascular wilt disease in more than a hundred crops, the MAPKs Fmk1 and Mpk1 regulate an array of developmental and virulence-related processes. The downstream components mediating these disparate functions are largely unknown.
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