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    An appressorium is a specialized cell typical of many fungal plant pathogens that is used to infect host plants. It is a flattened, hyphal "pressing" organ...
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    form a structure called an appressorium that evolved to puncture plant tissues. The pressure generated by the appressorium, directed against the plant...
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    three stages: spore germination, hyphal growth, host recognition and appressorium formation. Spores of the AM fungi are thick-walled multi-nucleate resting...
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    and culm nodes. Using a structure called an appressorium, the pathogen penetrates the plant. The appressorium cell wall is chitinous and its inner side...
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    hyphal tip produces an infection structure called an appressorium. From the underside of an appressorium, a slender hypha grows downward to infect plant cells...
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    Markus; Hildebrandt, Ulrich (2017). "Very-long-chain aldehydes induce appressorium formation in ascospores of the wheat powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis"...
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    The spores produce an appressorium which in turn produces a penetration peg. This hypha grows from bottom of the appressorium and works its way through...
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    stomata, or penetrate directly through the top of the leaf, using its appressorium, infecting the leaf within 12 hours. At the cellular level, AAL produces...
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    PMID 23852167. Zhu, M.; et al. (2017). "Very-long-chain aldehydes induce appressorium formation in ascospores of the wheat powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis"...
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    then penetrated either directly with a germ tube or indirectly using an appressorium, thus initiating a new infection. Shortly after penetration, light-green...
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