Toxin-Producing Endosymbionts Shield Pathogenic Fungus against Micropredators

Toxin-Producing Endosymbionts Shield Pathogenic Fungus against Micropredators

ABSTRACT The fungus Rhizopus microsporus harbors a bacterial endosymbiont (Mycetohabitans rhizoxinica) for the production of the antimitotic toxin rhizoxin. Although rhizoxin is the causative agent of rice seedling blight, the toxinogenic bacterial-fungal alliance is, not restricted to the plant dis...

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Main Authors: Ingrid Richter, Silvia Radosa, Zoltán Cseresnyés, Iuliia Ferling, Hannah Büttner, Sarah P. Niehs, Ruman Gerst, Kirstin Scherlach, Marc Thilo Figge, Falk Hillmann, Christian Hertweck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-10-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
microbial interactions
natural products
rhizoxin
Rhizopus
symbiosis
microbial ecology
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01440-22

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01440-22

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