Published in:
Molecular Plant Pathology, 22 (2021) 7, Seite 882-895
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/mpp.13068
ISSN:
1464-6722;
1364-3703
Origination:
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Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Fusarium oxysporum</jats:italic> is a well‐known soilborne plant pathogen that causes severe vascular wilt in economically important crops worldwide. During the infection process, <jats:italic>F</jats:italic>. <jats:italic>oxysporum</jats:italic> not only secretes various virulence factors, such as cell wall‐degrading enzymes (CWDEs), effectors, and mycotoxins, that potentially play important roles in fungal pathogenicity but it must also respond to extrinsic abiotic stresses from the environment and the host. Over 700 transcription factors (TFs) have been predicted in the genome of <jats:italic>F. oxysporum,</jats:italic> but only 26 TFs have been functionally characterized in various formae speciales of <jats:italic>F. oxysporum</jats:italic>. Among these TFs, a total of 23 belonging to 10 families are required for pathogenesis through various mechanisms and pathways, and the zinc finger TF family is the largest family among these 10 families, which consists of 15 TFs that have been functionally characterized in <jats:italic>F. oxysporum</jats:italic>. In this review, we report current research progress on the 26 functionally analysed TFs in <jats:italic>F. oxysporum</jats:italic> and sort them into four groups based on their roles in <jats:italic>F. oxysporum</jats:italic> pathogenicity. Furthermore, we summarize and compare the biofunctions, involved pathways, putative targets, and homologs of these TFs and analyse the relationships among them. This review provides a systematic analysis of the regulation of virulence‐related genes and facilitates further mechanistic analysis of TFs important in <jats:italic>F. oxysporum</jats:italic> virulence.</jats:p>