generally the pathogens for plants and animals are totally different. However there are few exceptions, where a pathogen can infect both.

you can consult further information in this article

Article Impact of Plant Diseases on Human Health

Thanks for your answer @muahammad, I've gone through the attached article and I quite agree with the author on the "indirect" means through which plant pathogens causes diseases in humans.

However, having gone through the report of a study who reported that Pepper mild mottle virus may react with the immune system of humans and induce a clinical symptom; though other researchers believe the study did not provide a clear evidence on the pathogenic role of this plant virus in humans.

I believe there must have been more research to give more insight on this study/topic, hence, my question.

No plant disease has been proved to cause illness in humans directly. As dr, Muahammad Tanveer Munir suggested, the PMMoV has been studied and it appears no correlation between the symptoms and the pathogen. This could possibly lead to new discoveries in the next future, where constant mutation in virus could generate some sickness in humans. However for the moment is not possible to confirm this theory. We can just correlate many different plant pathogens affecting human health only in indirect ways. We have already reported plant diseases which have caused crisis in many countries, such as potato famine, black sigatoka, coffee rust etc. but never have occurred a direct disease on plants happening on humans. This is a very good news for all of us because otherwise we could not eat most of the fruits we have in our own garden!

Indeed further studies have to be performed and possibly in the future we will understand better the role of plant pathogens.

However, if your question includes toxic compounds (like aflatoxins) I would suggest you to read this ResearchGate discussion:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/can_plant_disease_causing_agents_like_fungi_bacteria_viruses_algae_infect_in_the_human_beings

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plant and animal tissue is different from each other because the diseases in animals pass to humans, but this is not the case for plants. secondary metabolites of plant diseases are toxic to humans and animals. for example, the plant pathogen fusarium species trichothecene, aspergillius species aflatoxin are toxic to humans and animals. but what I'm really curious about is the fungal agent bipolaris sorokiniana which makes root rot and leaf spot in wheat. Bipolaris sorokiniana is a dermatological infection. both factors are bipolaris but completely different from each other

Thanks @Dr.Francesco for sharing that discussion link, it was really helpful.

@Dr. Muge, that insight was really helpful.

Yes, there are many pathogenic fungi cause diseases for both plant and human.

Please take a look at this useful RG link.

Article Impact of Plant Diseases on Human Health

Please also have a look at the following RG link.

Article Can Plant Virus Infect Human Being?

Prof Arvind Singh , reading those attached articles was really insightful and revealing. The concluding statement of one of the article which reads that "there is no rigid rule that plant virus can not break the barrier of their host kingdom and invade human or animal. It is possible that some plant virus may have direct or indirect role as human pathogen, but at this moment, no such study is available to consider plant virus as human pathogen" is still a valid reason for possible direct transmission of plant pathogens to humans.

@ Taiwo Michael O.

Please also have a look at this similar RG discussion thread.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/can_plant_disease_causing_agents_like_fungi_bacteria_viruses_algae_infect_in_the_human_beings

Thanks!

Dear colleague,

There are many plant-pathogenic fungi which can cause hyalohyphomycosis and phaeohyphomycosis in humans and other vertebrates, e.g. members of the genera Alternaria, Bipolaris, Curvularia, Diaporthe, Exserohilum, Fusarium, Mycoleptodiscus, Phoma s.l., and many others. However, most clinically relevant fungi are saprophytes in nature (e.g. Blastomyces, Histoplasma, Cryptococcus, Sporothrix, etc., acquired via inhalation or trauma), or are transmitted directly or indirectly between humans (e.g. Candida spp., some Malassezia spp.,Trichophyton, Epidermophyton, etc.).

Fungi which are able to infect both humans and plants have been termed 'crossover pathogens'. This article includes some information about this topic: Article Crossover fungal pathogens: The biology and pathogenesis of ...

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Yes of course, there are many do that.