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Spore behaviors reveal a category of mating-competent infertile heterokaryons in the offspring of the medicinal fungus Agaricus subrufescens.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Jan 2016
Rocha de Brito Manuela, Foulongne-Oriol Marie, Moinard Magalie, Souza Dias Eustáquio, Savoie Jean-Michel, Callac Philippe
Abstract excerpt
Strain breeding is much less advanced in the edible and medicinal species Agaricus subrufescens than in Agaricus bisporus, the button mushroom. Both species have a unifactorial system of sexual incompatibility, a mating type locus tightly linked to a centromere, and basidia producing both homokaryotic (n) and heterokaryotic (n + n) spores. In A. bisporus, breeding is mainly based on direct selection among the...
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