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Fungal-specific transcription factor AbPf2 activates pathogenicity in Alternaria brassicicola.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Aug 2013
Cho Yangrae, Ohm Robin A, Grigoriev Igor V, Srivastava Akhil
Abstract excerpt
Alternaria brassicicola is a successful saprophyte and necrotrophic plant pathogen. To identify molecular determinants of pathogenicity, we created non-pathogenic mutants of a transcription factor-encoding gene, AbPf2. The frequency and timing of germination and appressorium formation on host plants were similar between the non-pathogenic ∆abpf2 mutants and wild-type A. brassicicola. The mutants were also similar...
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