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SUBMITTER: Morikawa S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11316297 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morikawa Shota S Verdonk Callum C John Evan E Lenzo Leon L Sbaraini Nicolau N Turo Chala C Li Hang H Jiang David D Chooi Yit-Heng YH Tan Kar-Chun KC
BMC microbiology 20240810 1
The fungus Parastagonospora nodorum causes septoria nodorum blotch on wheat. The role of the fungal Velvet-family transcription factor VeA in P. nodorum development and virulence was investigated here. Deletion of the P. nodorum VeA ortholog, PnVeA, resulted in growth abnormalities including pigmentation, abolished asexual sporulation and highly reduced virulence on wheat. Comparative RNA-Seq and RT-PCR analyses revealed that the deletion of PnVeA also decoupled the expression of major necrotrop ...[more]