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A spindle pole antigen gene MoSPA2 is important for polar cell growth of vegetative hyphae and conidia, but is dispensable for pathogenicity in Magnaporthe oryzae.
Current genetics - 1 Nov 2014
Li Chao, Yang Jun, Zhou Wei, Chen Xiao-Lin, Huang Jin-Guang, Cheng Zhi-Hua, Zhao Wen-Sheng, Zhang Yan, Peng You-Liang
Abstract excerpt
Spa2 is an important component of the multiprotein complex polarisome, which is involved in the establishment, maintenance, termination of polarized cell growth and is important for defining tip growth of filamentous fungi. In this study, we isolated an insertional mutant of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae that formed smaller colony and conidia compared with the wild type. In the mutant, a spindle pole...
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