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Double-Staining Method: A Technique to Visualize Plant-Fungus Interactions Using Ruthenium Red and Lactophenol Cotton Blue
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2025
This video demonstrates a double staining method using ruthenium red and lactophenol cotton blue to visualize pectins and chitins during plant-fungus interactions in a coffee rust plant. The procedure helps understand plant defense mechanisms during fungal infections.
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Infecting Mice with Malassezia spp. to Study the Fungus-Host Interaction
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2019
This protocol outlines the establishment of a mouse model for studying Malassezia-host interactions in the skin. It describes the cultivation of Malassezia in vitro, the infection of the murine skin with Malassezia, and the subsequent analysis of the inflammation and the fungal burden in the skin tissue.
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Double-Staining Method to Detect Pectin in Plant-Fungus Interaction
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2022
This protocol describes a microscopical method to detect pectin in coffee-fungus interaction.
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Analysis of Autophagy in Penicillium chrysogenum by Using Starvation Pads in Combination With Fluorescence Microscopy
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2015
A convenient and powerful method for studying autophagy in Penicillium chrysogenum by using starvation pads (mixtures of agarose and tap water in a microscope slide containing a central cavity) is presented here.
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Introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy
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2023
Fluorescence microscopy is a very powerful analytical tool that combines the magnifying properties of light microscopy with visualization of fluorescence. Fluorescence is a phenomenon that involves absorbance and emission of a small range of light wavelengths by a fluorescent molecule known as a fluorophore. Fluorescence microscopy is accomplished in conjunction with the basic light microscope by the addition of a powerful light source, specialized filters, and a means of fluorescently...
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Green fluorescent protein absorbs light at one wavelength and emits it at a longer wavelength, producing a detectable signal against the surrounding sample. Because researchers can connect reporter expression with fungal viability, gene activity, or cellular location, the emitted light provides a visual readout that links cellular behavior to specific biological states during infection studies.
Natural fluorescence comes from pigments already present in fungal cells, whereas introduced fluorescence depends on a reporter protein added to the fungal system. These sources can make fungal cells visible, but reporter proteins also allow investigators to associate fluorescence with selected features such as gene activity, viability, or cellular location, depending on how the reporter is used.
A linked fluorescent signal can provide more than the location of fungal cells. When reporter expression corresponds to viability or gene activity, observations can indicate whether fungi remain biologically active or whether particular cellular processes are occurring. This helps connect fungal behavior with pathogen dissemination, tissue invasion, and interactions with host immune cells.
Microscopy preserves visual information about where fluorescent fungi appear, supporting observations of tissue invasion, host-cell interactions, and cellular location. Flow cytometry instead analyzes fluorescent signals in cell-containing samples, enabling quantitative assessment of fungal populations or their interactions. Using either approach allows researchers to study infection-associated changes through measurable fluorescence rather than observation alone.
Researchers monitor fluorescent fungal cells as they interact with host cells and move through infected tissues. Microscopy can reveal spatial patterns associated with cellular contact or tissue invasion, while flow cytometry can support quantitative analysis of the fungal signal. Together, these observations help characterize pathogen dissemination and the host response during infection.
Fluorescent readouts can help researchers compare fungal behavior or signal-associated states before and after antifungal treatment. Depending on the reporter design, measurements may relate to fungal viability, gene activity, or cellular location. Microscopy and flow cytometry then provide complementary ways to assess treatment-associated changes within complex biological systems and support quantitative studies of antifungal effects.