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SUBMITTER: Liao J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5182064 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liao Jingjing J Huang Huichuan H Meusnier Isabelle I Adreit Henri H Ducasse Aurélie A Bonnot François F Pan Lei L He Xiahong X Kroj Thomas T Fournier Elisabeth E Tharreau Didier D Gladieux Pierre P Morel Jean-Benoit JB
eLife 20161223
Understanding how fungi specialize on their plant host is crucial for developing sustainable disease control. A traditional, centuries-old rice agro-system of the Yuanyang terraces was used as a model to show that virulence effectors of the rice blast fungus <i>Magnaporthe oryzaeh</i> play a key role in its specialization on locally grown indica or japonica local rice subspecies. Our results have indicated that major differences in several components of basal immunity and effector-triggered immu ...[more]