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Identification and complementation of a mutation to constitutive filamentous growth in Ustilago maydis.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jan 2000
Barrett K J, Gold S E, Kronstad J W
Abstract excerpt
Pathogenicity of the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis involves the formation of a filamentous, infectious dikaryon by fusion of compatible, yeastlike haploid cells. The mating-type loci, a and b, regulate cell fusion and establishment of the dikaryotic cell type, respectively. On solid medium, compatibility at the mating-type loci, in particular heterozygosity at the b locus, is manifested by the formation of...
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