A new mechanism for the pathogenicity of plant gray mold bacteria has been solved

sources and metabolic pathways for deadly, nutrient-based plant pathogenic fungi before killing plant cells for nutrition? This problem has been bothering the relevant academic circles. Reporter 10 from Jilin University learned that the international microbiology field famous academic journal
magazine recently published online the university's School of Plant Science Professor Qin Qingming research results, a good answer to the above questions.
caused by plant pathogen fungi account for about 70%-80% of plant diseases, causing huge economic losses worldwide every year. The study is based on the gray mold bacteria, which can infect more than 1400 kinds of plants, causing gray mold disease, causing huge economic losses in the world every year, so its pathogenic mechanism has attracted much attention from the academic community.
This study is the first to find and systematically explain that glycogens (the process by which organisms convert multiple nonsaccharide substances into glucose or glycogen) play a variety of roles in the development and pathogenic process of plant pathogenic fungi, and that the presence of sugar isomerogens can enable pathogens to cope with deficiencies in their own glucose and/or other carbon sources during plant invasion. The team also found a new way for gray mold bacteria to increase toxicity by using sugar allogeneic effects to infect the host, and came to the scientific conclusion that "sugar isogenic pathogens are the basis for the development of pathogens before obtaining nutrients from the host plant, and gray mold bacteria use this pathway to enhance their toxicity by initiating the germination of spores, infesting structure formation and invading the host cells". The results of this study indicate that the key components of glycogen and their regulatory factors are expected to be potential targets for the prevention and treatment of gray mold.
it is learned that the results were completed by an innovative research team of university students composed of undergraduates from Jilin University's School of Plant Science, in an open laboratory for the exchange of host-pathogen molecules of Jilin University led by Professor Qin Qingming. (Source: Science and Technology Daily, Linlin Xu Linli)