The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae differentiates a specialized infection structure called an appressorium, which is used to break into plant cells by directed application of enormous turgor force. Appressorium-mediated plant infection requires timely assembly of a higher-order septin ring structure at the base of the appressorium, which is needed to spatially orchestrate appressorium repolarization. Here we use quantitative 4D widefield fluorescence imaging to gain new insight into the spatiotemporal dynamics of septin ring formation, and septin-mediated actin re-organization, during appressorium morphogenesis by M. oryzae. We anticipate that the new knowledge will provide a quantitative framework for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of higher-order septin ring assembly in this devastating plant pathogenic fungus.
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