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SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6206051 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Yuankun Y Yang Xiufen X Dong Yijie Y Qiu Dewen D
Frontiers in microbiology 20181023
<i>Botrytis cinerea</i> is one of the most notorious pathogenic species that causes serious plant diseases and substantial losses in agriculture throughout the world. We identified BcXyl1 from <i>B. cinerea</i> that exhibited xylanase activity. Expression of the <i>BcXyl1</i> gene was strongly induced in <i>B. cinerea</i> infecting <i>Nicotiana benthamiana</i> and tomato plants, and <i>BcXyl1</i> deletion strains severely compromised the virulence of <i>B. cinerea</i>. BcXyl1 induced strong cell ...[more]