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Towards defining nutrient conditions encountered by the rice blast fungus during host infection.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Wilson Richard A, Fernandez Jessie, Quispe Cristian F, Gradnigo Julien, Seng Anya, Moriyama Etsuko, Wright Janet D
Abstract excerpt
Fungal diseases cause enormous crop losses, but defining the nutrient conditions encountered by the pathogen remains elusive. Here, we generated a mutant strain of the devastating rice pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae impaired for de novo methionine biosynthesis. The resulting methionine-requiring strain grew strongly on synthetic minimal media supplemented with methionine, aspartate or complex mixtures of partially...
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