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A carnitine-acylcarnitine carrier protein, MoCrc1, is essential for pathogenicity in Magnaporthe oryzae.
Current genetics - 1 Jun 2012
Yang Jun, Kong Lingan, Chen Xiaolin, Wang Dawei, Qi Linlu, Zhao Wensheng, Zhang Yan, Liu Xingzhong, Peng You-Liang
Abstract excerpt
The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae forms a specialized infection structure called an appressorium to breach the host-plant epidermis for successful infection. In this study, a mutant defective in appressorial penetration was isolated by a mutagenesis approach, in which an exogenous DNA fragment was found to be inserted into the first exon of MoCRC1. This gene encodes a putative carnitine-acylcarnitine...
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