Towards defining nutrient conditions encountered by the rice blast fungus during host infection.

Fungal diseases cause enormous crop losses, but defining the nutrient conditions encountered by the pathogen remains elusive. Here, we generated a mutant strain of the devastating rice pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae impaired for de novo methionine biosynthesis. The resulting methionine-requiring strain...

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Main Authors: Richard A Wilson, Jessie Fernandez, Cristian F Quispe, Julien Gradnigo, Anya Seng, Etsuko Moriyama, Janet D Wright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3468542?pdf=render