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A novel role for catalase B in the maintenance of fungal cell-wall integrity during host invasion in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 May 2007
Skamnioti Pari, Henderson Catherine, Zhang Ziguo, Robinson Zena, Gurr Sarah Jane
Abstract excerpt
Asexual spores of the rice blast fungus germinate to produce a specialized and melanized infection structure, the appressorium, which is pivotal to successful plant penetration. To investigate whether Magnaporthe grisea counteracts the toxic burst of H2O2 localized beneath the site of attempted invasion, we examined the temporal expression of five candidate antioxidant genes. Of these, the putatively secreted...
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