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Transmissible mitochondrial hypovirulence in a natural population of Cryphonectria parasitica.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jan 2000
Baidyaroy D, Huber D H, Fulbright D W, Bertrand H
Abstract excerpt
A cytoplasmically transmissible hypovirulence syndrome has been identified in virus-free strains of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica isolated from healing cankers on American chestnut trees in southwestern Michigan. The syndrome is associated with symptoms of fungal senescence, including a progressive decline in the growth potential and abundance of conidia, and elevated levels of respiration...
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