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Roles of pre-formed inhibitors in plant resistance to pathogens The take-all fungus of cereals, Gaeumannomyces graminis (Fig. 9. ...

detoxify tomatine, and tomatinase (from S. lycopersici) had negligible ability to detoxify avenacin. So it seems that these path ...

Hypovirulence of plant pathogens: the control of chestnut blight Chestnut blight, caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica( ...

contained “conventional” virus-like particles, but all the hypovirulent strains contained dsRNA whereas virulent strains had no ...

(reduced sporulation, etc.) that are potentially dis- advantageous in a biocontrol strain, reducing its en- vironmental fitness. ...

promoters, transcription initiation sites, and “stop” codons, to deduce the positions of protein-encoding genes. In practice, mu ...

Table 9.4Fungi initially proposed to form the basis of a coordinated genome sequencing effort in the USA. Organisms by category ...

gene copy is free to mutate and can eventually assume a new function while the original gene retains its function. But this proc ...

Expressed sequence tags and microarray technology Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) provide an alternative to whole genome sequenci ...

FUNGAL GENETICS, MOLECULAR GENETICS, AND GENOMICS 181 used ESTs to compare the types of genes expressed by mycelial cultures of ...

DNA synthesis Cell polarity, budding, septation Sexual cycle Clock control, light response Cell death Stress response Detoxifica ...

Esser, K. (1990) Molecular aspects of ageing: facts and per- spectives. In: Frontiers in Mycology(Hawksworth, D.L., ed.), pp. 3 ...

Chapter 10 Fungal spores, spore dormancy, and spore dispersal This chapter is divided into the following major sections: genera ...

General features of fungal spores Because of their extreme diversity we can define fungal spores in only a general way, asmicros ...

have been studied most thoroughly in this respect. Their dormancy cannot be explained in terms of a general permeability barrier ...

succession, with “pioneer” mycorrhizal species colo- nizing the youngest parts of the root system and being replaced successivel ...

grown birch seedlings were planted in these soils. Only the pioneer fungi formed mycorrhizas in these conditions, and this was r ...

nature all these spores can be held in a dormant state by the phenomenon termed fungistasis(or mycostasis). This is very common ...

cultivars of onions, garlic, etc. that do not produce the compounds that trigger sclerotial germination. But this is not a viabl ...

the asci act as guns, shooting spores up to 1–2 cm into the air. A different discharge mechanism is found in Basidiobolus ranaru ...