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A novel protein Com1 is required for normal conidium morphology and full virulence in Magnaporthe oryzae.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jan 2010
Yang Jun, Zhao Xiaoyan, Sun Jing, Kang Zhensheng, Ding Shengli, Xu Jin-Rong, Peng You-Liang
Abstract excerpt
In Magnaporthe oryzae, pyriform conidia are the primary inoculum and the main source for disease dissemination in the field. In this study, we identified and characterized the COM1 gene that was disrupted in three insertional mutants producing slender conidia. COM1 encodes a putative transcription regulator unique to filamentous ascomycetes. The com1 disruption and deletion mutants had similar defects in conidium...
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