Table 1: Highlight of the critical ESCRT pathway components and their established roles in plant pathogenic fungal species Table 1: Highlight of the critical ESCRT pathway components and their established roles in plant pathogenic fungal species Table 1: Highlight of the critical ESCRT pathway components and their established roles in plant pathogenic fungal species Table 1: Highlight of the critical ESCRT pathway components and their established roles in plant pathogenic fungal species Table 1: Highlight of the critical ESCRT pathway components and their established roles in plant pathogenic fungal species Table 1: Highlight of the critical ESCRT pathway components and their established roles in plant pathogenic fungal species
Sub-complexes Yeast Plant pathogenic fungi Species Reported functions References
ESCRT-0
Vps27 Hse1 Vps27 Hse1 Fusarium graminearum Magnaporthe oryzae Crucial for fungal development, conidiation and virulence and ∆Fg vps27 displayed adverse growth defects and almost no aerial hyphae production Mutants of ESCRT-0 components disrupts growth, conidiation, pathogenicity and sexual reproduction and regulation of autophagy. Xie et al., 2016 Sun et al., 2022
ESCRT-I
Vps23 Vps28 Vps37 Mvb12
Vps23 / Vps28
Fusarium graminearum
Loss of these genes led to severe growth defect therefore reduced virulence
Xie et al., 2019a
ESCRT-II
Vps36 Vps22 Vps25
Vps22, Vps25, Vps36
Fusarium graminearum
Aberrant endocytosis, decreased DON and reduced hydrophobicity.
Xie et al., 2019a
ESCRT-III
Vps20 SnF7 Vps24 Vps2
SnF7
Magnaporthe oryzae
Involved in pathogenic roles such as vesicle trafficking and endocytosis etc.
Cheng et al., 2018
Did2 Vps60, Ist1 Ist1 Ustilago maydis Fusarium graminearum Magnaporthe oryzae Defects in hyphal growth and impaired maturation and trafficking of early/late endosomes. Involved in vegetative growth, development, stress responses, virulence, endocytosis, and DON production. MoIst1 is involved in sporulation, appressorium development, plant penetration, pathogenicity, and autophagy in M. oryzae. Haag et al., 2017 Xie et al., 2019b Sun et al., 2022
Fusarium graminearum Virulence, Endocytosis etc. Xie et al., 2019b