Positively Selected Effector Genes and Their Contribution to Virulence in the Smut Fungus Sporisorium reilianum
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Positively Selected Effector Genes and Their Contribution to Virulence in the Smut Fungus Sporisorium reilianum
Plants and fungi display a broad range of interactions in natural and agricultural ecosystems ranging from symbiosis to parasitism. These ecological interactions result in coevolution between genes belonging to different partners. A well-understood example is secreted fungal effector proteins and their host targets, which play an important role in pathogenic interactions. Biotrophic smut fungi ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Biology and Evolution
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1759-6653
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy023