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SUBMITTER: Jacob S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4234259 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jacob Stefan S Foster Andrew J AJ Yemelin Alexander A Thines Eckhard E
MicrobiologyOpen 20140808 5
The aim of this study is a functional characterization of 10 putative histidine kinases (HIKs)-encoding genes in the phytopathogenic fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Two HIKs were found to be required for pathogenicity in the fungus. It was found that the mutant strains ΔMohik5 and ΔMohik8 show abnormal conidial morphology and furthermore ΔMohik5 is unable to form appressoria. Both HIKs MoHik5p and MoHik8p appear to be essential for pathogenicity since the mutants fail to infect rice plants. MoSln1p a ...[more]