[SCAN] Fungi and Plants – How they perceive each other!

Title: Fungi and Plants – How they perceive each other!

Speaker: Carlos Moreira

Affiliation: Applied and Environmental Mycology, ITQB NOVA

Abstract: Fungi and Plants have for long been involved in a plethora of established relationships, either beneficial or harmful, with direct impact in their development. Evolution led them to acquire mechanisms to perceive each other and respond/adapt accordingly. My work is focused on how plants perceive attack by fungal pathogens, specifically how plant defensive barriers mediate host-pathogen interactions, using damage associated molecules to activate immune responses. Moreover, from the perspective of the fungus, how the same source of signals is perceived as a trigger for developmental changes impacting host invasion and fungal growth.