Hi, Can plant pathogens cause disease and epidemics in humans? Do you have an example?
Several fungi, such as Aspergillus niger, A.flavus, and Fusarium solani are plant pathogen.However, these fungi are known to produce disease in humans and animals including birds.We have mentioned about the pathogenic role of these phytopathgens (plant pathogens) in our book entitled " Veterinary and Medical Mycology" published by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India.
No! Plant Pathogenic bacteria are specific in their mechanism of infection and they do not cause disease in humans. That is why no such epidemic has been reported uptil now.
I know some plant fungal pathogens can cause respiratory problems and allergy to humans because of fungal spores. Also, mycotoxins that produce by fungal as a "secondary metabolism" that is pathogenic to plants can cause a serious problem to humans and animals like cancer.
It is difficult for a plant pathogenic microorganism to become pathogenic for humans, for a microorganism to cause disease in humans, it must have the ability to develop in the conditions in which humans are (for example, grow at body temperature), on the other hand, the mechanisms of infection are different. On the other hand, fungi (filamentous fungi and yeasts) have not been related in foodborne diseases, however mycotoxins have. Ebadollah Ebadi
Several fungi, such as Aspergillus niger, A.flavus, and Fusarium solani are plant pathogen.However, these fungi are known to produce disease in humans and animals including birds.We have mentioned about the pathogenic role of these phytopathgens (plant pathogens) in our book entitled " Veterinary and Medical Mycology" published by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India.
I think that the plant pathogenic bacteria can not cause diseases in human. But we know that some plant pathogenic fungi can cause diseases in human such as Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium.. etc..
Plant pathogenic bacteria are potential reservoirs of human infection, which may have important implications for the emergence of infectious diseases.Article Crossing the kingdom border: Human diseases caused by plant pathogens
Yes. Fusarium Solani, F. oxysporum, F. proliferatum etc. which responsible for plant diseases as well as human diseases.
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