{"title":"Fungal spore attachment to substrata","authors":"Joseph G. Vasselli, Brian D. Shaw","doi":"10.1016/j.fbr.2022.03.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>A critical factor in the success of fungal growth is </span>spore adhesion to host surfaces. Generating spores capable of rapid and firm bonding to their hosts is not only important for keeping spores from prematurely detaching from the host surface but can also serve as a trigger for </span>spore germination and the development of infection structures. In this paper </span>fungal spore adhesion mechanisms are reviewed as well as factors influencing spore adhesion, germination, and differentiation. This review ends with a brief discussion on the future of fungal adhesion research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":12563,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Biology Reviews","volume":"41 ","pages":"Pages 2-9"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fungal Biology Reviews","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1749461322000112","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MYCOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A critical factor in the success of fungal growth is spore adhesion to host surfaces. Generating spores capable of rapid and firm bonding to their hosts is not only important for keeping spores from prematurely detaching from the host surface but can also serve as a trigger for spore germination and the development of infection structures. In this paper fungal spore adhesion mechanisms are reviewed as well as factors influencing spore adhesion, germination, and differentiation. This review ends with a brief discussion on the future of fungal adhesion research.
期刊介绍:
Fungal Biology Reviews is an international reviews journal, owned by the British Mycological Society. Its objective is to provide a forum for high quality review articles within fungal biology. It covers all fields of fungal biology, whether fundamental or applied, including fungal diversity, ecology, evolution, physiology and ecophysiology, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, cell biology, interactions (symbiosis, pathogenesis etc), environmental aspects, biotechnology and taxonomy. It considers aspects of all organisms historically or recently recognized as fungi, including lichen-fungi, microsporidia, oomycetes, slime moulds, stramenopiles, and yeasts.