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Stepwise arms race between AvrPik and Pik alleles in the rice blast pathosystem.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Aug 2014
Wu Weihuai, Wang Ling, Zhang Shu, Li Zekang, Zhang Yu, Lin Fei, Pan Qinghua
Abstract excerpt
A stepwise mutation that occurred in both pathogens and their respective hosts has played a seminal role in the co-evolutionary arms race evolution in diverse pathosystems. The process driven by rice blast AvrPik and Pik alleles was investigated through population genetic and evolutionary approaches. The genetic diversity of the non-signal domain of AvrPik was higher than that in its signal peptide domain....
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