The Ustilaginales comprise hundreds of plant-parasitic fungi with a characteristic life cycle that directly links sexual reproduction and parasitism: One of the two mating-type loci codes for a transcription factor that not only facilitates mating, but also initiates the infection process. However, ...
The top five GO terms enriched in down- regulated genes were protein phosphorylation, proteolysis, regulation of transcription, signal transduction and transmembrane transport which are implicated in host invasion, merozoite reproduction and gamogony as well as and parasite-host immunological interactions (...