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Identification and characterization of victorin sensitivity in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jun 2004
Lorang Jennifer M, Carkaci-Salli Nurgul, Wolpert Thomas J
Abstract excerpt
Cochliobolus victoriae is a necrotrophic fungus that produces a host-selective toxin called victorin. Victorin is considered to be host selective because it has been known to affect only certain allohexaploid oat cultivars containing the dominant Vb gene. Oat cultivars containing Vb are also the only genotypes susceptible to C. victoriae. Assays were developed to screen the "nonhost" plant of C. victoriae,...
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