Circular DNA plasmid in the phytopathogenic fungus Alternaria alternata: its temperature-dependent curing and association with pathogenicity.

doi:10.1093/genetics/146.1.111

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Circular DNA plasmid in the phytopathogenic fungus Alternaria alternata: its temperature-dependent curing and association with pathogenicity.

Genetics - 1 May 1997

Katsuya S, Kaneko I, Owaki M, Ishikawa K, Tsujimoto T, Tsuge T

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We found the presence of plasmid DNA in strain T88-56 of the Japanese pear pathotype of Alternaria alternata, which causes black spot of certain cultivars of Japanese pear by producing host-specific AK-toxin. The plasmid, designated pAAT56, was identified to be an approximately 5.4-kilobase (kb)...

Topics

Alternaria
DNA, Circular
Hot Temperature
Microscopy, Electron
Phenotype
Plasmids
RNA, Messenger

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