This chapter describes the steps needed to inoculate host plants with a fungus of interest, and subsequently to visualize the infection using confocal microscopy. As an exemplar, we consider the interaction between wheat and the Septoria leaf blotch fungus, Zymoseptoria tritici. This method is easiest when a GFP- or other fluorophore-tagged strain of the studied fungus is available, but notes are also provided which describe possible staining techniques which may be employed if fluorescent fungus is unavailable in your system.
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Fones, H. N., & Littlejohn, G. R. (2018). From sample to data: Preparing, obtaining, and analyzing images of plant-pathogen interactions using confocal microscopy. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1734, pp. 257–262). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7604-1_20
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